[SpaceProgram] Revising costs

[Ricky Ng-Adam]

Have they been selected? I thought we had changed the proposal to leave the
nomination and selection to the organization. in addition to renewal
periods every few months. I think it's a fair and more democratic process.
On Jan 11, 2012 2:16 AM, "cole santos" <cksantos85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The original proposal relies on a traveling co-administrators, and
> they have already been chosen. I think that is an important part of
> the whole proposal. Now I also think that some hackerspaces may be
> able to provide lodging ala couch surfer once in a while if conditions
> and personalities permit, but we should not rely on that and it should
> be included in the budget and we should do our best not to spend it.
> But ultimately I think that decision is up to the originally proposed
> co-administrators.
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Alex Cureton-Griffiths <alexcg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I've been having some thoughts on the costs of the project. i made a
> > copy of the spreadsheet here with some changes.
> >
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj7iWk0I7Jh8dC1Lc043cktCUnJlSFVNQkdFVTFYbkE
> >
> > Changes include:
> > * Switching GM to be more stationary, less traveling position. (since
> > one way to keep costs down is just have one director travel. Note:
> > I've just done that bit as a thought exercise, and am not pushing for
> > it).
> > * Reducing consulting costs (e.g. 500 USD every month for graphic
> > design seems excessive to me)
> > * Removing events (since we have option of doing them online)
> >
> > Also, I reference the staff costs spreadsheet. I made that myself and
> > it rejigs cost for GM/community manager. That sheet's at:
> >
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj7iWk0I7Jh8dG1Mblh4U0lXd2p5bl9yZUhfU0pVVGc
> >
> > As a result of the changes I've pushed allocation for projects to just
> > over 35k per project (from 30k originally)
> >
> > Stuff I'm not sure about:
> > * IT costs
> > * Rent - if GM doesn't travel, rent would depend where they live. I
> > have no idea about US rentals (where I would envision GM being based
> > due to hackerspace density in the US)
> > * Other consulting costs
> >
> > Also, who put the costs spreadsheet together originally? Then I'll
> > know who I can direct questions to
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