FPA Decisions
A list of decisions taken by vote of the association members and passed by consensus
| Initiative | Approval Date | Private Deliberation |
|---|---|---|
| Approve association statutes | 2021.09.09 | link |
| Spend EUR 2000 on association setup. | 2021.09.09 | link |
| Elect yorik as chairperson of the association. | 2021.09.09 | link |
| Add jriegel as an ordinary member. | 2022.01.10 | link |
| Add wandererfan as an ordinary member. | 2022.01.10 | link |
| Elect sliptonic to the administrative body. | 2022.01.24 | link |
| Add a rule setting administrative body members mandate duration to 2 years. | 2022.01.24 | link |
| Elect sgrogan to the administrative body. | 2022.01.26 | link |
| Creating a new github account for the FPA. | 2022.02.11 | link |
| Approve the 2022 budget. | 2022.04.05 | link |
| Add rules defining members inactive status. | 2022.07.26 | link |
| Add Kunda1 as an ordinary member. | 2022.08.31 | link |
| Add uwestoehr as an ordinary member | 2022.09.01 | link |
| Add chennes as an ordinary member | 2022.09.26 | link |
| Set up a blog and web store | 2022.09.26 | link |
| Grant USD 1000 to jnxd for his work on BSpline tools | 2022.09.26 | link |
| Give the FPA administrators a USD 100 per occasion spending authority | 2022.10.20 | link |
| Elect Chennes to the administrative group | 2022.11.15 | link |
| Elect Wandererfan to the administrative group | 2022.11.15 | link |
| Approve Join codeberg and make monthly $10 donation | 2022.11.15 | link |
| Approve Funding travel for developers attending FOSDEM 2023 | 2022.11.15 | link |
| Approve Creation of the FPA Development Fund | 2022.11.15 | link |
| Grant USD 1000 to Realthunder | 2022.11.15 | link |
| Fund original blog content | 2022.12.15 | link |
| Pay up to $400 USD/year for blog hosting | 2022.12.20 | link |
| Approve funding for a FOSDEM related expenses | 2023.02.13 | link |
| Covering of jnxd’s visa expanses | 2023.02.22 | link |
| Offer the Thursday restaurant on the FreeCAD day | 2023.02.28 | link |
| Approve funding for 1password credential management | 2023.03.03 | link |
| Fund FreeCAD Component Library development | 2023.03.22 | link |
| Organize a FPA Logo Contest | 2023.03.27 | link |
| Travel funding for attending the Vancouver FreeCAD hackathon | 2023.05.08 | link |
| Create a Reserve Fund for the FPA | 2023.05.25 | link |
| Research best-practices for FOSS grant development | 2023.06.11 | link |
| Issue Request for Proposals for Material Improvements | 2023.06.29 | link |
| Raise the limit of the FPA Development Fund to 5000 USD | 2023.07.10 | link |
| Grant 1200 USD to Adrian Insaurralde for fixing and improving the Conda builds | 2023.07.13 | link |
| Approve a maximum of 5000 USD for Vancouver Hackathon 2023 travel grants | 2023.07.13 | link |
| Grant 500 USD to bensay to fix Issue 5903 | 2023.07.24 | link |
| Approve a maximum of 3000 USD for Vancouver Hackathon 2023 non-travel expenses | 2023.07.31 | link |
| Grant AgCaliva 600 USD to complete the per-document units feature | 2023.08.03 | link |
| Grant Kurt Kremitzki 700 USD GSoC Mentor Summit travel grant in advance of 1200 USD Google reimbursement | 2023.09.08 | link |
| Grant Chris Jones 1200 USD for improvements to Homebrew FreeCAD setup | 2023.09.12 | link |
| Reconfirm sliptonic to the administrative body | 2023.10.18 | link |
| Grant 700 USD/month for one year (total 8400 USD) to Adrian Insaurralde for management, maintenance and packaging support | 2023.10.19 | link |
| Grant 2000 USD to Alex Prokoudine to relaunch grant program | 2023.10.19 | link |
| Grant 1000 USD to Amulya Paritosh for extension to Component Library | 2023.10.31 | link |
| Re-elect Yorik as the FPA chairman for a period of 2 years | 2023.11.09 | link |
| Add Shaise as a general FPA member | 2023.11.09 | link |
| Allocate 3000 USD to organize the FOSDEM/FreeCAD day 2024 | 2023.11.17 | link |
| Allocate 6000 USD for travel grant for FreeCAD day 2024 | 2023.11.17 | link |
| Grant 600 USD / month for concretedog to write on the FreeCAD blog | 2023.11.17 | link |
| Allocate 5000 USD for UI/UX training | 2023.11.17 | link |
| Grant 5000 USD as honorarium for board chairperson | 2023.11.17 | link |
| Grant 8000 USD to Kurt Kremitzki for improved infrastructure performance and maintenance | 2023.11.17 | link |
| Add Stephen Hawes as an FPA general assembly member | 2023.12.08 | link |
| Add Paulo Kiefe (stemfie) as an FPA general assembly member | 2023.12.23 | link |
| Grant 5000 USD to Ajinkya Dahale for curve geometry improvements | 2023.11.26 | link |
| Additional $800 travel funding for Adrian | 2024.01.11 | link |
| Grant 4800 USD to Bradley Mclean for Toponaming merge work | 2024.01.22 | link |
| Grant 3400€ (~3694 USD) to Vincenzo Calligaro for Toponaming merge work | 2024.01.22 | link |
| Grant 3750 USD from UX funding to Joe Sardo for Cornell UX course | 2024.01.25 | link |
| FPADF Grant 5000 USD to Bradley Maclean | 28 Mar 2024 | link |
| Renew sliptonic’s mandate as FPA administrator | 04 Apr 2024 | link |
| FPA Grant: Manual update proposal (2500 USD) | 19 Apr 2024 | link |
| Provide money for improved infrastructure performance (forum, wiki, etc.) | 22 Apr 2024 | link |
| 5000 USD grant to F_Rosa for “Creation of furniture and parametric components” | 12 May 2024 | link |
| 5000 USD to jnxd for Sketcher cleanup | 03 Jun 2024 | link |
| 1200 USD Grant for Homebrew Improvement | 13 Jun 2024 | link |
| 6000 USD grant to Alexandre Prokoudine for Blog | 26 Jun 2024 | link |
| Allocate USD 600 for FOSSHacks bounties | 26 Jun 2024 | link |
| 5000 USD Grant to Bradley Maclean for Toponaming Debugging | 02 Jul 2024 | link |
| 4000 USD Grant to Ovalelephant35 for C++ Documentation | 02 Jul 2024 | link |
| 8000 EUR grant to Pieter Hijma - Improve C++ API Documentation | 02 Jul 2024 | link |
| 6000 USD for North American Meetup 2024 | 16 Aug 2024 | link |
| 2000 USD to Chris Jones for Homebrew Qt6 build system | 27 Aug 2024 | link |
| 280 USD x 2 for travel to IndiaFOSS | 27 Aug 2024 | link |
| 805 USD to Jackson Oursland for additional travel expenses | 27 Aug 2024 | link |
| 8000 EUR grant to Pieter Hijma - Research Variant Parts | 09 Sep 2024 | link |
| 1500 USD Grant to bgbsww for procedures and/or code for supporting debugging FreeCAD c++ and python | 24 Sep 2024 | link |
| 350 USD Grant to Ajinkya Dahale for conference travel | 24 Sep 2024 | link |
| Grant to FlachyJoe for bug fixes | 03 Oct 2024 | link |
| 17,000 USD Grant to bgbsww for Parallelization work | 03 Oct 2024 | link |
| 500 USD grant to Oursland for CI analysis | 04 Oct 2024 | link |
| Authorize 500 USD for 1.0 Release Trailer production | 04 Oct 2024 | link |
| Grant 1780 Euro to Ajinkya Dahale for travel to FOSDEM | 10 Oct 2024 | link |
| Renew Stipend for FPA Chair | 17 Oct 2024 | link |
| Extend contracts of concretedog and adrian | 24 Oct 2024 | link |
| Budget for bounties | 24 Oct 2024 | link |
| FPA Travel Policy | 30 Oct 2024 | link |
| 8000 EUR to Pieter Hijma for VarSet UX Improvement | 31 Oct 2024 | link |
| Renew admin mandates of chennes and wandererfan | 31 Oct 2024 | link |
| 6000 USD grant to Dr. Rajeevlochana G. Chittawadigi | 09 Nov 2024 | link |
| 3000 USD Grant to reqrefusion | 09 Nov 2024 | link |
| Allow 340 USD extra spending for GSOC mentors meeting | 10 Nov 2024 | link |
| 1750 USD to Obelisk for icon design | 11 Nov 2024 | link |
| Add Joe Sardos (obelisk) as an FPA general assembly member | 21 Nov 2024 | link |
| Add Jackson Oursland (oursland) as an FPA general assembly member | 26 Nov 2024 | link |
| 1500 EUR Grant to kadet1090 for Unified Transparent Previews | 28 Nov 2024 | link |
| Change Adrian’s contract | 28 Nov 2024 | link |
| Updated Policy on Conflict of Interest | 19 Dec 2024 | link |
| USD 5000 for Translatable Text Reviewer | 19 Dec 2024 | link |
| USD 6000 for Addon Ecosystem Coordinator | 19 Dec 2024 | link |
| USD 6000 for OpenCASCADE Developer Liaison | 19 Dec 2024 | link |
| FPA Rules About Grant Committee Conflicts of Interest | 19 Dec 2024 | link |
| 1300 EUR/Month to maxwxyz for Bug Triage | 10 Jan 2025 | link |
| 6000 USD Travel budget for FOSDEM/FreeCAD day 2025 | 10 Jan 2025 | link |
| FOSDEM/FreeCAD day 2025 | 21 Jan 2025 | link |