<div dir="ltr"><div>A draft reporting structure (tune-up community workflows every 4 months, annual strategic impact review) has been posted to the bottom of:<br><br> <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Translation-Community_Manager">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Translation-Community_Manager</a><br><br></div>(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 ;-)<br><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Hi Chris!<br><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 April 2016 at 01:23, Chris Leonard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com" target="_blank">cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span>On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On another note, and sorry that I missed this as it was surely stated<br>
> elsewhere, but, what is the proposed annual fee to be paid to the TCM?<br>
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</span>Absent a final job description, no final number has been discussed,<br>
yet. I believe a monthly all-in number is envisioned, as opposed to<br>
an hourly costing, although expressing expectations about approximate<br>
hourly commitment would not at all be unreasonable. The discussion<br>
did not really have the chance to develop that far.<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all"></span><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Cheers<br>Dave</div>
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