A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following matter.
Increase Inkscape’s 2015 budget from $10,000 to $15,000, reducing reserves by $5,000. Increase amount budgeted for LGM and Hackfest by an additional $2,500 each.
| Board Member | |
|---|---|
| Bryce Harrington | a. |
| Tavmjong Bah | a. |
| Josh Andler | a. |
| Jon Cruz | a. |
| Ted Gould | a. |
| Johan Engelen | a. |
| MentalGuy |
In a prior vote, the board allocated $5000 from reserves to be spent on sponsorship costs for LGM 2015 and the Inkscape hackfest; this would be above and beyond whatever would be collected from donations. In that vote Tav suggested a more appropriate amount would be a $10,000 total allocation, a $5000 increase over the current budget.
The Software Conservancy’s ledger system indicates that currently (as of midnight Feb 19th), the total donations collected and earmarked for the hackfest is: $1447.00, less $144.7 to SFC and $61.50 for banking fees, or $1240.80 total.
The Hackfest planning committee estimated a total cost of $9-18k for the hackfest sponsorships. In detail:
[Note the above estimates don’t include LGM hotel costs]
The Hackfest committee suggested reimbursement limits as:
For reference, Bryce’s itenary actuals for Hackfest + LGM are:
