Talk:2013 Activity Plan

General discussion

I just want to thank Jon for putting this together. It's great to get all the (hopefully) uncontroversial stuff down at the beginning so we can make the discussion as productive as possible.

A lot of the budget items so far are continuations of 2012 budget items (which is the obvious place to start), so it would be useful to have some projections of spending against budget for those items in 2012. Do such projections exist? (I see Jon has already adjusted some of the items to reflect lessons learned this year, but is that just based on his personal knowledge of what has been spent or is it written down somewhere?) --Tango (talk) 14:49, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

3. Staff

I don't think staff should be a separate section. I would pay for the fundraiser out of the fundraising budget, the education person out of the education budget, etc.. The staff costs of an activity are no different to any other costs, they are still money being spent to achieve something, so why should they be budgeted differently? Some staff may need to be split between multiple budgets, with an estimate of how much of their time they will spend on each. The office rent can also be shared across the projects in proportion to staff time - the cost of the bit of office that someone is sitting in while they work on a particular project is as much a cost of that project as anything else is.

One of the things a non-profit is judged on is how much of its money goes on its programmes. Therefore, we should make sure that all programme spending is correctly allocated to programmes, otherwise we just make ourselves look bad. --Tango (talk) 14:37, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

5.2 Wikiconference 2013

Is the £40k for Wikimania intended to be for the bid, or for initial work on the actual conference if we win? Or a bit of both? The decision on the bids is currently scheduled to be made 3 months into our financial year, so both do need to be allowed for in this budget. I think the intention is to hold a major conference in 2014 whether we win or not, so we can just allocate some funds to organising that conference and not worry at this point whether it will be called Wikimania or not. I think there should be a separate budget for the bid, which probably shouldn't be as large as £40k (it's only 3 months work, after all). --Tango (talk) 14:44, 3 July 2012 (UTC)