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hired. This will be at about =A320k per annum 5 days a week to do community
building work particularly for CKAN, Open Spending and core work too. Rufus
has someone lined up for this, so they should be able to start soon.

Moving forward we will keep ensuring project leads to focus on spending
below their budget minus the core OKFN contribution. This should always
leave us with a surplus for doing more interesting stuff, or dealing with
the unexpected.

Let me know if you have any questions or thoughts.

Thanks,
Jason

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Jason, this is much appreciated. Quick comments:
20k project fund sounds promising, are there thoughts on how it will be =
managed, projects picked, what average grant is, what conditions?
Open Spending - likely i&#39;ve not been paying attention, all I could s=
ee online was Jonny&#39;s thorough blog post about the proposal to the Knig=
ht Foundation back in Jan.
Re community organiser - good idea, but I don&#39;t think anybody should=
 have to work five days a week. I work four and wish I could afford three..=
.
<blockquote type=3D"cite">On 21 Mar 2011 17:05, &quot;Jason Kitcat&quot;=
 &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:jason.kitcat at okfn.org" target=3D"_blank">jason.kitca=
t at okfn.org</a>&gt; wrote: Dear Board 
 
Rufus and I had a productive time last week looking at our finances. 
 
We&#39;ve shared via the <a href=3D"mailto:Okfn.board at gmail.com" target=3D"=
_blank">Okfn.board at gmail.com</a> account access to a &#39;Budget Overview&#=
39; spreadsheet which is at <a href=3D"http://bit.ly/eQeoI4" target=3D"_bla=
nk">http://bit.ly/eQeoI4</a>

This is a simple top-level analysis of money we hold, money we expect this =
year and how they will be allocated. It was filled through detailed analysi=
s of Xero and project-level budgets. 
 
In summary, of the =A3411,000 currently accumulated funds, plus =A340k we s=
hortly expect for DGU we propose the following: 
 
=A3105k =A0 for current and shortly expected liabilities 
=A394k =A0 =A0for running projects (LOD2 &amp; tiny bit of 4IP stuff) 
=A3100k =A0 to CKAN work 
=A330k =A0 =A0Open Spending 
=A348k =A0 =A0to a new &#39;Core General Reserve&#39; which is enough for 6=
 months of OKFN running costs 
=A320k =A0 =A0to a new &#39;Project fund&#39; for funding smaller projects =
and ideas 
 
This leave =A354k unallocated.