[IAEP] Sugar Labs Budget.

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Mmm, personally I'd say that at least a third of Sugar Labs' budget  
should go towards actual development.

All of that traveling and outreach becomes somewhat of a moot point  
when the actual platform we're building a community around and  
marketing doesn't work as advertised/expected.

Just my 2 euro-cents,
Christoph

Am 06.04.2009 um 23:28 schrieb David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>:

> Last week, I set the rather abstract goal of raising $100,000US for
> Sugar Labs.  $100,000 seems like a reasonable number for a project in
> its second year.  Last year, Sugar Labs proved that it could get a
> surprisingly large amount of development accomplished with very little
> money.
>
> As for direct spending, I believe that Sugar Labs should focus it's
> resources entirely on community and ecosystem development.  A strong
> community and ecosystem means more Sugar related job!
>
> The primary method for us to strengthen the community is through
> travel stipends to enable contributors to meet face to face.
>
> The primary method for us to build the ecosystem is to send
> ambassadors, such as Walter, to meet with potential partners.  So far
> Walter has been covering his much of his own travel expenses:(
>
> The second method for building both the community and ecosystem is
> getting out the word through marketing.
>
> As a starting point I suggest that we spend approximately 70% on
> travel and 30% on marketing.
>
> david
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