TODO: inventory
Inflation metrics in €, stat.ee
| current subscribers | 2024 | in 2018 | as 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TODO | 29 | 21 | 41 |
| TODO | 59 | 42 | 84 |
| TODO | 99 | 71 | 140 |
| TODO |
Although there is a buffer, month-to-month, K-SPACE is barely even, and NUMBERS
Grounds for price increase:
Framework for tracking inflation? Forcing people to reconsider subscriptions?
Slack-only plan? VMs without floor? :capitalism:
TBD: announce at least 1mo before
TBD: protocol and make read-only
Start: XX:XX
End: XX:XX
Member participants (k-space:legalmember):
- Savva Bychkov - XXXXX
- Arti Zirk - XXXXX
- Priit Laes - XXXXX
- Lauri Võsandi - XXXXX
- Herman Õunapuu - XXXXX
- Erki Aas - XXXXX
- Marvin Martinson - XXXXX
- Erki Naumanis - XXXXX
- Song Meo - XXXXX
- Marek Juhanson - XXXXX
- Anto Veldre - XXXXX
Meeting Lead: XXXXX
Protocoller: XXXXX
"Juhatus valitakse kolmeks aastaks." | Board members are elected for 3 years.
Extend board member Erki Naumanis office term, until 2027-03-XX
Appoint board member Arti Zirk for office term, until 2027-03-XX
2024 board assembly protocol
25.04.2024 19:00
7 out of 11 legal members present:
- Erki Aas
- Erki Naumanis
- Arti Zirk
- Herman Õunapuu
- Lauri Võsandi
- Anto Veldre
- Savva Bychkov
Agenda:
1. Annual report
2. Board membership updates
3. Membership pricing update
4. Anything that comes up during the meeting
Annual report
Discussion about the economical report intro - NGO, selling some services to universities etc - see the report.
2023 ended with 24k in cash, 27k total in assets - versus 12k and 16k at the end of 2022. Profit of 2023 - 10k€
Erki: we doing really good, most NGO are not profitable.
Decrease in membership income, 10k increase in business revenue.
Erki: we are closing to 40k business revenue, which would require VAT eligibility- we don't want that! Gonna have to move some income to membership income (which is not taxed)
26k in net assets at the end of 2023.
Report confirmed unanimously.
Board membership updates
Current board:
- Erki Naumanis
- Lauri Võsandi
Lauri wishes to resign from the board for personal reasons.
Arti has been trying to be more active.
Board will be elected for 3 years.
Decisions:
Extend board member Erki Naumanis office term, until 2027-03-XX
Appoint board member Arti Zirk for office term, until 2027-03-XX
Remove board member Lauri Võsandi
Board membership approved unanimously.
Props to Savva for organizing new tables and reinitating the cleaning service.
Membership pricing updates
Rasmus did some bulletpoints about Proxmox cluster usage, also Savva did inventory of the server room.
https://wiki.k-space.ee/en/about/meetings/2024-04
In addition of members using VMs, there are:
Rangeforce (1100€), Rust community (60€) and some other companies (99/199€ depending on agreement) are renting servers. Some more will come.
Current pricing tiers:
Floor
https://wiki.k-space.ee/t/equipment
Chaos tools & workspace
Coworking workspace
Workshop (59€ tier)
Laser cutter?
3D-Printing
Retro museum
Event space, streaming setup
Coffee, print-scan, 'office'
99€: table
Social: on-location + Slack
Inflation calculations:
2024 in 2018 as 2018
29€ 21€ 41€
59€ 42€ 84€
99€ 71€ 140
Erki: should we increase the whole spectrum?
Erki: 29€ payers, how much would it hurt to increase from 29€ to 35€?
Savva: Maybe 45€ 85€ 145€
Rougly 50% price increase.
Lauri:
- 0 SEO
- Hard to find the place
- Little precence overall
Vad: doesn't seem fair to increase price, as we could always grow in numbers:
- what is the essence of the place
- initiate younger folks into engineering/robotics. we should advertise to those
- hardware startups would need prototypes etc
- Lauri: all this assumes that there would need to be a person managing all this.
- Anto: it's hard to hire people, as people assume benefits, promises etc, taxes would be need to paid etc.
- Lauri: someone already around could take initiative and build up the income to him/herself. Perfect would be someone like a teacher around here taking it up as a part time job but it's really random find someone here.
- Perfect would be arrangement for someone, who could tie their own activities with k-space activities, both profiting from it.
- We could create the role ad, but budget?
- Erki: current pricing just covers expenses. More people (with the current pricing) would bring in more, but would also cost K-Space more. Also, more members are harder to manage. 49 people are coming in regulary.
- Lauri: rent more to companies
- Anto:
Q: how many paying members? 50.
A: They would have suprise.
Q: Who and when can change?
A: The board meetings
Maybe communicate tommorow, that we are considering it, giving time to see feedback?
Vad: price can also be a filter, paying people are more reasonable?
Nope, there already currently are mess problems caused by senior members, overall chaos.
Erki: So, it's inenvitable to increase prices from the second half of the year.
Oleksii: how many people would quit.
Yadi-yadi, in current economical situation we will increase at some point.
Psycologically, change the first number , eg
29 -> 39
59 -> 79
99 -> 139
Near future plans:
- Currently accumulated money is for emergency purposes, eg when we would need to move out and dissolve.
- Try to improve experience for current members.
- Bring in more people and events.
- Do more team-building events of members companies
Verdict:
Increase prices from september:
29 -> 39
59 -> 79
99 -> 139
Pricing increase approved unanimously.
Additional points