1 year of Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant
As announced last year, starting January 2015 I've benefited from a "Flash Grant" kindly awarded to me by the Shuttleworth Foundation. This post reports publicly about how I've used the money to promote Free Software via my own activism, over the period January-December 2015.
I'm lucky to have a full-time academic job that provides me with a salary and basic computer hardware. But Free Software not being the only focus of my job, it gets difficult at times to get travel funding to specific Free Software events. So that is what I've mostly used the grant money for: attend Free Software events that I wouldn't have been able to attend otherwise.
On grant money I've attended LibrePlanet 2015
(2015-03-19-boston-libreplanet label in the financial
reports below), where I've given the talk
Distributions and the Free "Cloud", and FSFE's LLW
2015 (2015-04-15-barcelona-fsfe-legal) workshop.
Furthermore I've used the grant to reimburse otherwise not
reimbursed out of pocket expenses in a trip to San Francisco
(2015-11-06-san-francisco-gsoc+osi) that have been
otherwise sponsored by Google (to attend the Summer of Code Mentor
Summit) and OSI (to attend a F2F meeting of the Board of
Directors). Finally, I've used grant money to offer lunch to
invited lecturers in my master-level Free Software class at the
university (label 2015-foss-class).
Actual financial reports are reported below, in ledger format. It should be noted that, contrary to the usual expected 6-month duration of flash grants, I've used only about half the grant amount over a 12-month period; I do not plan to pocket what remains, but rather keep on using it over the next year, reporting again publicly at the end of the period. Also, I did not breakdown further out of pocket expenses, but they invariably stand for public transport tickets and meals.
Balance sheet
Overall:
1966,11 EUR Assets:Funds
-4052,52 EUR Equity:Opening balances
2086,41 EUR Expenses
15,90 EUR Bank:Commissions
424,00 EUR Conference:Registration
56,50 EUR Teaching:Speaker-invitation
1590,01 EUR Travel
249,02 EUR Lodgement
562,51 EUR Out-of-pocket
778,48 EUR Plane
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Breakdown by purpose:
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2015-03-19-boston-libreplanet
-1265,22 EUR Assets:Funds 1265,22 EUR Expenses 424,00 EUR Conference:Registration 841,22 EUR Travel 213,38 EUR Out-of-pocket 627,84 EUR Plane -------------------- 0 -
2015-04-15-barcelona-fsfe-legal
-479,66 EUR Assets:Funds 479,66 EUR Expenses:Travel 249,02 EUR Lodgement 80,00 EUR Out-of-pocket 150,64 EUR Plane -------------------- 0 -
2015-11-06-san-francisco-gsoc+osi
-269,13 EUR Assets:Funds 269,13 EUR Expenses:Travel:Out-of-pocket -------------------- 0 -
2015-foss-class
-56,50 EUR Assets:Funds 56,50 EUR Expenses:Teaching:Speaker-invitation -------------------- 0
Journal
2014-12-03 Shuttleworth Foundation flash grant Equity:Opening balances -4052,52 EUR -4052,52 EUR
Assets:Funds 4052,52 EUR 0
2014-12-04 bank commissions on incoming transfer Expenses:Bank:Commissions 15,90 EUR 15,90 EUR
Assets:Funds -15,90 EUR 0
2014-12-24 plane tickets Paris-Boston round trip to attend LibrePlanet 2015 Expenses:Travel:Plane 627,84 EUR 627,84 EUR
Assets:Funds -627,84 EUR 0
2015-01-02 LibrePlanet 2015 registration + travel fund contribution Expenses:Conference:Registration 424,00 EUR 424,00 EUR
Assets:Funds -424,00 EUR 0
2015-03-02 plane tickets Paris-Barcelona round trip to attend LLW 2015 Expenses:Travel:Plane 150,64 EUR 150,64 EUR
Assets:Funds -150,64 EUR 0
2015-03-19 lunch with invited speaker for lecture about FOSS release management Expenses:Teaching:Speaker-invitation 28,00 EUR 28,00 EUR
Assets:Funds -28,00 EUR 0
2015-03-25 lunch with invited speaker for lecture about FOSS business models Expenses:Teaching:Speaker-invitation 28,50 EUR 28,50 EUR
Assets:Funds -28,50 EUR 0
2015-04-03 LibrePlanet 2015 out of pocket expenses Expenses:Travel:Out-of-pocket 213,38 EUR 213,38 EUR
Assets:Funds -213,38 EUR 0
2015-04-15 LLW 2015 out of pocket expenses Expenses:Travel:Out-of-pocket 80,00 EUR 80,00 EUR
Assets:Funds -80,00 EUR 0
2015-05-06 hotel in Barcelona for LLW 2015 (3 nights) Expenses:Travel:Lodgement 249,02 EUR 249,02 EUR
Assets:Funds -249,02 EUR 0
2015-11-29 OSI F2F Fall 2015 out of pocket expenses Expenses:Travel:Out-of-pocket 269,13 EUR 269,13 EUR
Assets:Funds -269,13 EUR 0
