[Osmf-talk] Treasurer's Report

[Paul Norman]

On 2023-10-01 7:38 a.m., Roland Olbricht wrote:
> The board did explicitly not mandate to break it down that detailed
> because it would be too confusing. However, I would like to make visible
> in the budget that we need a budget about 200k GBP a year on average to
> renew our current fleet of servers and have hosting on the same size we
> have now. Having a padding line item "OWG reserve" had then been the
> compromise to represent that we need on aver age 200k GBP for OWG, and
> that sudden spikes in years with many servers to review are not the
> OWG's fault or a surprise. 

200k GBP (230k EUR) is not an accurate number for the operational 
expenses of hosting and deprecation of servers. I do not believe we have 
spent that much in any year on those items. If you include all 
operational expenses including SRE salary, we're probably that high, but 
that is accounted for as a different line item.

The expected OWG spending is also incorrect. The OWG requested 169k EUR, 
not 169k GBP.

We haven't done next year's budget, but I expect capital expenses to be 
less than in this year's budget cycle. I also want to move the OWG 
budget to a proper expense sheet and balance sheet, where we use 
deprecation.