Hello,
the following decision, which was taken in private today, is now made public in accordance with our statutes.
I wrote:
I propose the following vote:
Approve the 2025 budget as attached.
Authorize Florian to work with the tax consultant on any required changes, also to prepare the vote for the formal reserve building.
The vote runs 72h from now.
The Board of Directors at the time of voting consists of 7 seat holders (not including deputies). In order to be quorate, the vote needs to have 1/2 or more of the Board of Directors members, which gives 4.
A total of 6 Board of Directors members have participated in the vote.
The vote is quorate.
A quorum could be reached with a simple majority of 4 votes.
Result of vote:
6 approvals: Mike, Paolo, Sophie, Simon, Eliane, Osvaldo
0 abstain
0 disapprovals
Decision: The proposal has been accepted.
The approval of the formal reserve building will take place then in a separate vote, based on the final document from the tax consultant. With the above vote, the board agrees on a mutual understanding of the projects planned, so we can start executing.
Changes from the tax consultant could include e.g. adjusted translations, different representation of the projects (e.g. accounting-wise, the developers will be listed as recurring cost, not as new projects). The accountant might also advise to not plan in more funds than needed, which still would not block us from spending, just we don’t have to file all to-be-spent funds with the tax office upfront.
Regarding the developers, a final decision on their areas of working is pending, as such this budget does not preclude a decision on this. However, we should not just add “developers” without further details, therefore the proposal was to keep some example areas in.
Around week, I should receive the feedback from the tax consultant, and afterwards will provide a public budget spreadsheet as well. Here are some summarized details already:
Numbers
- Sum of available funds 3.125.615,06 €
- Not to be spent: Capital stock 50.000,00 €
- Can be spent, but doesn’t have to be spent: Free reserves incl. those built from 2024 incl. capital investment 1.244.814,12 €
- Can’t be spent: Credit card/VAT/claims 78.782,70 €
- Minimum to be spent for 2025 1.752.018,24 €
Some projects and recurring items, sums are what is left in the budget as of January 1, unless otherwise noted
- Infrastructure 70.000,00 € (spent in 2024: 58.693,34 - spent by 2025 end-April: 17.079,24 €)
- LibOCon & FOSDEM 60.000,00 €
- Community projects 25.000,00 € (spent in 2024: 17.050,45 € - spent by 2025 end-April: 5.407,73 €)
- Marketing budget 30.000,00 € (spent in 2024: 2.034,60 € - spent by 2025 end-April: 3.348,25 €)
- MC request: Improvements on the Membership Committee tooling 10.908,54 €
- 2-4% budget to FLOSS software as devprojects or support 5.000,00 €
- BZ release funding 5.967,77 €
- [REDACTED: legal item] 5.000,00 €
- LibreTranslate Improvement of localizations and translations for worldwide involvement of volunteers 5.000,00 €
- Outreachy 35.000,00 €
- Graphic design work for great visuals for website, socials, blog posts and marketing 25.000 €
- LibreOffice SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) – CRA conformance 35.000,00 €
Dissolved projects
- MC request: TDF welcome kit for the members
- Update & translate LibreLogo manual, complete LibreLogo unit tests
- [MC] Carbon compensation
- 10% project budget for members
- Hardware for members
- [MC] Training on the reform of foundation law changes incl. BoD
- Research and development of collaborative editing features based on open standards
- In-person strategy workshop 2024-2026
- Integrating Hetzner cloud to Jenkins
- Bug Bounty Program
- Aptos font replacement
New items
- Developer for macOS with a focus on User Interface [REDACTED: job ppsting not online yet]
- Developer for Python [REDACTED: job ppsting not online yet]
- Developer for Online and Mobile [REDACTED: job ppsting not online yet]
- Developer for Base [REDACTED: job ppsting not online yet]
- [REDACTED: legal item] 1.149,54 €
- [REDACTED: legal item] 6.009,50 €