[Osmf-talk] Financial Transparency

[Roland Olbricht]

Hi Simon,

 >
https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Finance_Committee/Minutes/2024-05-22#Report_to_the_Advisory_Board

There are currently no monthly reports available to anyone.

Harrison has done great work to to make a test run over several months
and in the best of all worlds we will resume that. But it is still the
type of someone must do only partly automated work as a first step and
make sense of the numbers as a second step.

The "can" in the cited document was meant as there are no objections to
share numbers if they both are available and asked for. In particular,
the format is still somewhat open. For the reason to get on the one hand
insight and on the other hand keep work down to a minimal amount. The
hope has been to get actual advice from the Advisory Board what metrics
are worth tracking.

The insight, without the Advisory Board, so far has been that we both
spend and earn much slower than predicted, because all flow of money
around OSMF is accompanied by lots of communications and needs far more
than the actually available bandwidth of people.

-Roland