Discussion between Christian, Aske, Tobias
Guidelines for requests for funding:
- every active team member has voting rights
- all active team members can vote on every request for funding
- budget approval is granted with a 2/3 majority (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority#Two-thirds_vote) with at least 50% participation
- the default timeframe for the voting period is 1 week
- everyone (team members, community members) can put up a request for funding, but voting needs to be initiated by a team member (which is not yourself)
It’s good practice to discuss your request for funding with a few people to get feedback and a feeling if it could be supported before you actually submit it.
Every request for funding should be started with a thread in Discourse. The team member will put it up for voting as soon as both of you agree its ready.
Notes:
- we need to define rates for hours spent in a request for funding
Examples for funding topics
- enabling costs (e.g. travel, accommodation…)
- utilities (e.g. infrastructure, services and licenses)
- administration (e.g. legal, financial)
- marketing (e.g. PR, collateral, evangelism)
- time compensation (details to be defined)