{"id":1834,"date":"2012-09-05T16:27:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T16:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2013-09-10T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T10:17:02","slug":"what-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2012\/09\/05\/what-money\/","title":{"rendered":"What money can buy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is not <a href=\"\/\/www.mageia.org\/en\/about\/\">what we do<\/a>. But some of the tools we use to do it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no mystery that Mageia depends on the conjunction of <a href=\"\/\/www.mageia.org\/en\/contribute\/\">many contributors<\/a> <strong>and<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mageia.org\/en\/thank-you\/\">many donors<\/a>. Totally. Some provide the financial and technical means for the project &#8211; some provide their skills and time to make it go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a quick, mid-year, report of how we have used the money we received. Mostly &#8211; for building our technical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>For 2012 alone, to this date with a budget of about 10k\u20ac:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>about 80%<\/strong> has been invested in our infrastructure; this means: domain names, certificates, hosting and most importantly, server hardware: in July and August, we purchased and installed 2 new, rather expensive servers in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lost-oasis.fr\/\">Marseille Lost-Oasis datacenter<\/a>, to improve the distribution&#8217;s building and packaging;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>about 10%<\/strong> has been used for transportation, people to events or to go to the datacenter for maintenance operations;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>about 7%<\/strong> percent has been used for marketing materials.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is against total of donations of about 6k\u20ac (so yes, because of the exceptional expenses in August, we have a net loss of about 4k\u20ac at this time).<\/p>\n<p>To compare, we set a forecast set for this year in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mageia.org\/en\/about\/reports\/2011\/mageia_rapport_financier_2011_fr.pdf\">2011 financial report (PDF, in French)<\/a>. It was a bit differently laid out (45% for infrastructure, 35% for marketing, 5% for transportation, 22% for reserves) and rather ambitious with regard to revenues (20 k\u20ac &#8211; we made 30% of it so far).<\/p>\n<p>You may check a <a href=\"\/\/www.mageia.org\/en\/about\/reports\/2012\/\">more detailed report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Next<\/h2>\n<p>Growing Mageia requires having clear and strong financial resources not only for this year, but for the coming ones.<\/p>\n<p>To keep on better managing financial resources in Mageia, there are 3 main lines of work in sight for the coming months:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Strengthen and automate our <a href=\"\/\/www.mageia.org\/en\/about\/reports\/\">reports<\/a><\/strong>. It&#8217;s still a mostly manual task: it&#8217;s slow and it&#8217;s prone to errors. Better explanations of each line of expense or revenue is a must too. We also need to properly quote our balance sheet; and improve our reports content and accessibility.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Better state our budget needs<\/strong>. This is not an easy task in a community project. But hardware, hosting, transportation, design, marketing, and other goodies often need money, and it&#8217;s better to prepare for such expenses.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Revamping our whole <a href=\"\/\/www.mageia.org\/donate\/\">donation campaign<\/a><\/strong>. This means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>integrate above budget needs into the donation form, to allow people to target their donation at something specific if they wish to;<\/li>\n<li>show the progress of the various budget lines;<\/li>\n<li>have more obvious entry points to the donation page throughout the site;<\/li>\n<li>revamp our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mageia.org\/en\/thank-you\/\">Thank you! section<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Of course, all can&#8217;t be done at once. Help is welcome, on any of these points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is not what we do. But some of the tools we use to do it. It&#8217;s no mystery that Mageia depends on the conjunction of many contributors and many donors. Totally. 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