Talk:Community Resources/2016-17 Annual Plan

Budget

@KLove (WMF): Can I make a few suggestions for improving the budget table here?

• Could the travel budget be split out between the different grant lines? There's no point having both a row and a column for travel when the only cell you fill in is where the row and column meet. :-) The same goes for contractors.

Hi Mike Peel ! We don't split out our travel budget between grant lines. I know it looks odd to have the travel and contractors the way we do, but we for grants are splitting out the budget in the following areas: APG (full and simple combined), Projects + Conference + Travel Support + Rapid,

• The lines for $500 against staff meetings and telephone costs look like 'minimum amounts to include in the table' rather than 'actual amounts'. I'm sure that not all phone calls are made by Ellie and Kacie. ;-) If you're going to include these in the table, why aren't they more split out between the different grant lines?

I see your point. We wanted to find a visually simple way of breaking out the grants program budgets so it's clear what we're working with. However, we didn't do that with the contract/travel, so that phone call budget would be for all grants POs.

• Please, please, don't try to split things into 'core' vs. 'non-core'/'strategic'. We've seen many times before that this approach doesn't work.

I understand you don't find this helpful. However, this was the framework all of WMF was asked to use in designing this annual plan.

• Also, it's very rare that anything can be run for 0 budget, as you're suggesting that IdeaLab is here, so please be more realistic here. :-)

Idealab costs would be covered under CR lead.

Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:21, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Seems we could try another way to present this. Thanks for your ideas. KLove (WMF) (talk) 06:05, 28 April 2016 (UTC)