Budget and planning for FY 26-27

[Soham_Kulkarni]

I was going through these 2 forum threads:

Budget and planning for FY 24-25

Since we are on the verge of starting a new fiscal year, it would be a good time to plan for budget. A budget should essentially be: Income - where are we expecting income to come from - donations, partnerships, tickets Expense - what is the expense we are incurring - salaries, travel, events, internships I think we had done a similar exercise last year, would be great if we can do it this year as well. cc @fossdot

Budget and planning for FY 25-26

Since this was not posted publicly, I think we should disclose the budget and numbers for this year like we did last year. Also I think each of the staff members need to share what will they “deliver” for the salaries they get and how will this be reported to the community / donors. I don’t think we did a good job of this last year, but we should improve this year. Also maybe each staff member should share their “self review” of their own contributions / performance last year. FOSS United is …

And noticed that the 26-27 thread hasn’t been created. I found these extremely insightful as a volunteer in the org, hoping the board/team publishes this year’s info soon. @Shree_Kumar mentioned that @rahulporuri has been working on an Annual Report for FY 25-26 which was shown during the community call. I couldn’t find MoM for the April 2026 community call, hopefully someone can guide me in the right direction.

ccing @ansh @fossdot @ashlesh @Swastik_Baranwal from the previous thread.