[IAEP] [Localization] [SLOBS] quarterly or semiannual financials/vibrancy/transparency around Sugar Labs' 1st hire

[Adam Holt]

A draft reporting structure (tune-up community workflows every 4 months,
annual strategic impact review) has been posted to the bottom of:

   https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Translation-Community_Manager

(Again, just a reminder this is an insurance policy against Board/Financial
drift as much as an insurance policy against TCM feelings of
purposeless...where the largest risk of drift could very well be
_insufficient_ funds being spent, making the TCM's task impossible...among
other risks we hopefully won't face ;-)


On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Chris!
>
> On 4 April 2016 at 01:23, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On another note, and sorry that I missed this as it was surely stated
>> > elsewhere, but, what is the proposed annual fee to be paid to the TCM?
>>
>> Absent a final job description, no final number has been discussed,
>> yet.  I believe a monthly all-in number is envisioned, as opposed to
>> an hourly costing, although expressing expectations about approximate
>> hourly commitment would not at all be unreasonable.  The discussion
>> did not really have the chance to develop that far.
>>
>
> Hmm. I think Adam's concern about drift is well founded, but, the risk
> seems proportional to how the ratio of the budget for the role to Sugar
> Labs' capital base.
>
> If we're talking $10,000/week (which in my own work recently I have found
> typical for software development contracting in the USA) then its not a
> good idea :) If it is 6-month, $6k contract with $80k in the bank, that
> seems pretty harmless to me even if it was a total failure, had no
> oversight, and delivered nothing.
>
> --
> Cheers
> Dave
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