[Chaoss-Board] Community Bridge Funds

[Matt Germonprez]

Hi Ray,

Yes, this completely makes sense. I've started a very simple document to
capture this. I'll put this on the board agenda to talk about how we
categorize and prioritize items.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BtelsQom1bKe4DDCIMJtqpSlHE_y-nhe00plTbRKUUA/edit

I'm also in favor of a sub-team to approve/deny requests. Do others on the
board have thoughts?

Matt


On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:01 AM Raymond Paik <rpaik at gitlab.com> wrote:

> Thanks Matt,
>
> I think the template is a great start.
>
> There are a few things that we probably want to figure out and I'll list
> them below (in no particular order and not exhaustive).
>
>    1. I think it's pretty clear what travel & mentorship expenses are.
>    However, what are marketing or meetup expenses? I assume CHAOSS
>    swags/merchandise would be under marketing, but if we wanted to spend $'s
>    on future CHAOSSCon (e.g. pay for a venue, food/beverage, etc.) do we
>    consider that marketing or meetup? I think it'd help to have a list of
>    budget items under each category. It doesn't have to be exhaustive, but I
>    think some examples would help.
>    2. We should have a discussion on a few priority items so that we can
>    allocate $'s for those. I think we had lot of discussion on swags, but
>    there are probably other areas where we want to invest in?
>    3. Once $'s have been allocated for priority items, we can use the
>    rest of the budget for community requests (e.g. for travel funds).
>
> As for who approves budget requests, I'm also OK with having a
> sub-team/committee of the GB (comprised of 2-4 volunteers) so the entire
> board doesn't need to review every request. As George noted, there could
> always be escalations to the entire board when appropriate.
>
> Hope that made sense :-)
>
> Ray
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 1:51 PM Georg Link <linkgeorg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Matt!
>>
>> 1. I think we can establish a "budget committee". No need to bother the
>> whole governing board with every request. The budget committee could have a
>> rule to escalate to the GB, if a request exceeds some percent of available
>> funds or a fixed dollar amount.
>>
>> 2. A subset of GB members who volunteer for being on the budget committee.
>>
>> 3. +1 Thank you for putting the request template. The requested
>> information seems reasonable - not too much but enough to make a decision.
>>
>> Georg
>>
>> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 6:00 PM Matt Germonprez <germonprez at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> If you aren't aware, the CHAOSS project has been approved as a Linux
>>> Foundation Community Bridge project and we currently have a bit over
>>> $16,000 in our account for the following:
>>>
>>> [image: Screen Shot 2019-05-28 at 10.23.53 AM.png]
>>>
>>> In order to spend these funds, I think it should require approval from
>>> the board (or a subset of board members). So I think there are a few
>>> details that should be worked out among us:
>>>
>>> 1) Should the entire CHAOSS board or a subset of the board approve
>>> funding requests?
>>> 2) If it is a subset, who will comprise this team?
>>> 3) For CHAOSS members to request the use of funds, I have started a
>>> Google Doc that could serve as the request template by which people/teams
>>> could request the use of funds. This is a work in progress and
>>> comments/edits are welcome.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fVlhGAqdGRVvT-db2syW6-TmMTEME9MNLkV1D47sfwI/edit
>>>
>>> Please share your thoughts.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mutual of Omaha Associate Professor
>>> Information Systems
>>> College of Information Science & Technology
>>> University of Nebraska Omaha
>>> he / him / his
>>> https://goo.gl/E87KdK
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Chaoss-members mailing list
>>> Chaoss-members at lists.linuxfoundation.org
>>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chaoss-members
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Chaoss-members mailing list
>> Chaoss-members at lists.linuxfoundation.org
>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chaoss-members
>>
>

-- 
Mutual of Omaha Associate Professor
Information Systems
College of Information Science & Technology
University of Nebraska Omaha
he / him / his
https://goo.gl/E87KdK
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/chaoss-members/attachments/20190530/657f59a4/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Screen Shot 2019-05-28 at 10.23.53 AM.png
Type: image/png
Size: 88692 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/chaoss-members/attachments/20190530/657f59a4/attachment-0001.png>