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Matthew Cropp PublicSeen by 22

A thread for expenses to be submitted and voted on by the Finance working group.

EXPENSE: Allocate $250 to Mayel's Hack Lab

proposal by Matthew Cropp Closed Sat 16 Mar 2019 4:02PM

Outcome
by Matthew Cropp

Approved. I will notify Mayel of the decision and move forward with the disbursement of $250 to haha.academy.

Following the unanimous approval of the straw-poll on this topic, I propose that we allocate a $250 donation to Mayel's hack lab.

Update: Mayel asked that it be directed to the non-profit he's involved in, haha.academy, so that will be the target unless any objections are raised.

Results

Nick S
Agree

$250 seems okay as a token of appreciation. Obviously only a tiny fraction of the going rate for the work he did, but then no-one here is getting that, and we couldn't pay it in our current circumstances.

I'd be happy if this went directly to Mayel, unless he really wants it to go elsewhere.

Matt Noyes
Agree

Can't choose a number without thinking about how many such contributions we intend to make, but no objection to $250.

Vote removed

Matthew Cropp
Agree

I think $250 would be a meaningful gift that would not strain the co-op's finances.

Straw Poll on Making a Donation to Mayel's Hackerspace in Appreciation for his early work

proposal by Matthew Cropp Closed Sun 10 Mar 2019 3:01AM

Outcome
by Matthew Cropp

Unanimously yes, and $250 sounded good to folks, so will post the binding proposal now.

In a recent discussion of our development of compensated roles for the co-op, Mayel, who was a cofounder who departed in the fall, tooted the following:

"I wish the co-op had organized a lot earlier to compensate for the huge amount of labor that went into its early days.
For my part, being broke at the time, I could really have used the support in order to avoid burn-out, but if you ever want to make a gesture I'd now happily accept a donation to my local hacklab instead." Full Thread

As such, in this straw poll, please indicate whether you would support donating to his hacklab in appreciation for his early efforts, and please indicate the amount you think would be appropriate in the comment. If a majority support this, I'll either post a proposal immediately thereafter if there seems to be a rough consensus in the comments, or post a range poll with the highest and lowest proposed numbers as the boundaries.

For the financial context of the co-op, we currently have $6,122 in the Opencollective, are taking in ~$411 per month, and will be operating on an approximately break-even basis should the Tech WG ops team budget be approved.

Results

Matthew Cropp

At the CWG Ops Team yesterday we approved the comp expenses for January and February, which are attached in to this post as PDFs. Members of the WG may use these PDFs as receipts when submitting for their portion from Open Collective.

Nick S

extra $10 for March 2020, just to try to synch with Hetzner https://opencollective.com/socialcoop/expenses/14911

Nick S

$25 to Digital Ocean for March 2020 (including some vm usage) https://opencollective.com/socialcoop/expenses/14154

Nick S

$10 to Digital Ocean for February 2020 https://opencollective.com/socialcoop/expenses/13532

Nick S

$50 to Digital Ocean. We've been testing backups on a virtual machine which has incurred about $35 over the last week, so this covers that plus some padding for the near future. VM should be shut down soon. https://opencollective.com/socialcoop/expenses/12397

Nick S

Another $20 paid last week, claiming now I'm back from holiday. We seems to be using credit up more rapidly (on media storage? I've not being using droplets since last payment) Trying to add a bit of a buffer, will need to keep an eye on this.
https://opencollective.com/socialcoop/expenses/9322