[haiku] Re: Haiku Inc: Proposed Annual Budget
- From: "Charlie Clark" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:14:03 +0100
Am 21.11.2009, 22:00 Uhr, schrieb Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hi Matt,
thank you very much for the budget projection and your commitment to
supporting BeGeistert in the future.
If it matters, in the past the coding sprint following BG, the
informal coding sprints, and EU shows didn't receive funding.
This isn't strictly true. We have received some funding from Haiku, Inc.
for developers to attend in the past.
(Honestly, I'm not sure why they weren't funded in the past. Lately,
I've been nagging François and other people who attend EU shows to
come forth with expenses.)
We, the Haiku Support Association, has asked for contributions in the
past. As far as I know this is the preferred method for the developers and
it certainly reduces transaction costs. For the sake of clarity: the HSA
is a registered German (and thus European) association which organises and
runs BeGeistert and necessary the legal person for any contacts. Many of
the core developers are members and the relationship with Haiku, Inc. is
complementary. Membership to the one geek one vote association is open to
all but subject to the approval by the elected supervisory board.
These items have already inflated the
normal costs. So we wanted to initially set an incremental goal. But I
totally agree with the good nature of everyone to donate towards a
concrete goal.
FWIW. At the current pitful exchange rate and exorbitant PayPal charges
USD 1000 per year would cover about 2 developer attendances (excluding
loss of earnings) per year. We would, of course, like to expand this as
much as possible.
Regarding the planned funding of North American and EU events - from a
development perspective I'd prefer more money spent here as we are
planning to support attendance of more events from 2010: FOSDEM in
Brüssels, LinuxTag in Chemnitz, possibly CeBIT in March, RMLL in July and
others depending on resources (personnel and financial)
Charlie
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