On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 12:38 +0100, Chris Keating wrote:
- Budget/underspend - yes, we will be underspent on staff, we're
overspending on some other areas (for instance, the Opportunity Fund, where we haven't yet said no to a proposal from an individual for money to make something cool happen).
The way we are working is to look at the long-term development of the organisation. Thinking "OMG we have money we must spend it now!" is not the right way to take decisions. The Charity Commission says charities need to spend money "reasonably promptly" to fulfill their objects and that is what we intend to do, but "reasonably promptly" does not require us to spend money within 12 months of receipt.
Liam and John will be able to provide some "spend opportunities" at the meeting in York. Galleries and Museums Scotland (GMS) were very receptive in this afternoon's meeting.
I've also had interest expressed by the Edinburgh Linux Users' Group (EdLUG) and the Libraries And Museum Professionals (LAMP) group with Edinburgh University; they'd be most interested in any proposals on presentations - for example, on MediaWiki and how they could use it (I noted GMS using SharePoint...).