Hello,
with this message, I’d like to give a quick budget update.
As you might be aware, the previous board has voted on the 2023 budget on December 31, 2023. [1] The current board has agreed [2] to work under the assumption that this budget draft is applied until a different motion has been formed.
The work on the budget has seen some delays, but individual requests [3] [4] have been approved. One of those related to an in-person meeting for the team (and eventually also for the board as a joint meeting). During this meeting we had the opportunity to talk about several budget items, and I’ve just shared my close-to-final draft with the board last week.
The breakdown is comparable to previous budgets, and a few project ideas have been added for evaluation, amongst these are:
- Research and development of collaborative editing features based on open standards
- Improvement of localizations and translations for worldwide involvement of volunteers
- Kind of Season of Docs through Outreachy, including Writer templates
- Integrating Hetzner cloud to Jenkins
- Graphic design work for great visuals for website, socials, blog posts and marketing
- Bug Bounty Program
It’s not a given all of these ideas will make it into the final budget, but we’re currently assessing cost and feasability and timeline.
Regina also just made a proposal on ODF 1.4 [5] which Sophie is following-up on.
Several projects have been dissolved in the last budget decision, but amongst those still in the 2024 budget proposal are:
- 2-4% budget to FLOSS software as devprojects or support
- Update & translate LibreLogo manual, complete LibreLogo unit test
- 10% project budget for members ideas
- Hardware for members
- Bugzilla release funding
We’ll have final budget shortly and keep you posted.
Florian
[1] [DECISION] - Approve 2023 annual budget and reserves
[2] Motion Concerning Budget 2024
[3] [DECISION] Support "Ada & Zangemann" animated movie with 3.600 €
[4] [VOTE] 16k € budget for in-person team meeting in Munich in June
[5] Tenders for preparing LibreOffice for ODF 1.4