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

[James Cameron]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 09:21:58AM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris!
> 
> On 4 April 2016 at 01:23, Chris Leonard <[1]cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Dave Crossland <[2]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.

Agreed.

Sugar Labs is more at risk of failure to use available funds than it
is at risk of losing funds without return.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.netrek.org/