Annual budget for FSCI - looking for volunteers
We run many services listed here https://wiki.fsci.org.in/index.php/Category:Services so far we have been looking at individuals sponsoring each stuff. Vik from Hamara linux is interested to sponsor more services annually. We need some volunteers to prepare and maintain our budget (basically just ask around people and collect expenses and find out annual expense).
Poll Created Wed 30 May 2018 5:29PM
Would like to volunteer to maintain annual budget of FSCI? Closed Sat 9 Jun 2018 5:03PM
Athul, approox, Tanzeem and Ranjith volunteered. This will be documented at https://wiki.fsci.org.in/index.php/Budget
Ask around and find the expenses we have on services we maintain and combine them.
Results
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Yes | 4 |
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No | 1 |
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Undecided | 156 |
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5 of 161 people have voted (3%)

Ranjithsiji
Thu 31 May 2018 10:21AM
I can help the main maintainer about the tracking the expense.
[email protected]
Fri 1 Jun 2018 7:19AM
I would be more inclined to support the funding of a part time employee who could take care of fsci admin and some technical work.

Appoox
Fri 1 Jun 2018 4:57PM
Hopefully I might be able to help with anything.
Athul
Sun 3 Jun 2018 6:53PM
I didn't managed to prepare any budget yet. But let me try

Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer Thu 31 May 2018 10:27AM
I hope we will be using GNUKhata or GNUCash; GNUCash has a mobile front-end also
Pirate Praveen Fri 1 Jun 2018 5:19AM
I think a simple wiki page will be enough for now and if it grows more complex, we can look for more heavy tools.
Jose Jubin Thu 31 May 2018 12:46PM
Hi, I can help by donating money up to 1500. I'm not sure if that's enough. But just wanna support free software community. Will that help to maintain a domain for an year?
Pirate Praveen Fri 1 Jun 2018 5:19AM
That can cover 3 domains per year. Any contribution is welcome and we are able to sustain it because lots of people contribute small amounts.
Jose Jubin Fri 1 Jun 2018 9:46AM
Please let me know how to send the contribution. I prefer a project related to educational field, if available. :slight_smile:

naviknair1 Thu 31 May 2018 3:20PM
I am interested
Pirate Praveen Fri 1 Jun 2018 5:21AM
Thanks! Once we close the poll, we will know who all are interested and you folks can talk to each other and start working on it.
Pirate Praveen Fri 1 Jun 2018 5:22AM
Just an update: These are the services we currently maintain https://wiki.fsci.org.in/index.php/Category:Services (loomio and mailman services are coming up). so major costs are domains and hosting.
Pirate Praveen Fri 29 Jun 2018 3:47PM
@athul @appoox @tanzeem @ranjithsiji currently the funds are managed by @sruthi @bhe and @bady , domains cost managed by @tvm . Talk to them and collect the expense details and create a wiki page at wiki.fsci.org.in
Pirate Praveen Fri 29 Jun 2018 3:52PM
https://wiki.fsci.org.in/index.php/Domains_Managed has the list of domains we manage. https://wiki.fsci.org.in/index.php/Budget is the skeleton (major heads for our expenses).
Pirate Praveen Fri 29 Jun 2018 3:55PM
You could create a matrix room for coordination (sub groups can't be created until we migrate to our own loomio instance). Other options are lists.fsci.org.in and freesoftwareindia.org. If you want to wait, codema.fsci.org.in should be ready soon (as soon as we get data from loomio.org team).
Athul Sat 30 Jun 2018 3:09PM
currently a matrix room will be a best option.
Pirate Praveen Sun 1 Jul 2018 11:00AM
Please create one room room and invite people who showed interest.
Pirate Praveen Sun 1 Jul 2018 4:12PM
We now have #fscibudget:poddery.com matrix room. Join and collaborate.
Sooraj Kenoth · Thu 31 May 2018 4:09AM
It will be interesting if we add the name of initial funder too... :)