Compensation framework

[wouter]

Good to have you back @benhylau !

Quick remarks:

• indeed the tracking of tasks should be incorporated. We talked about it and I didn’t manage yet to include it, please can you work it into the emerging proposal?
• fortunately I had stored a copy of the meeting notes, and just put them in the wiki (this should be part of meeting routines): meet.coop - The Online Meeting Cooperative
• I personally think it is important that we do use an agreed hourly cost tariff that is the same for all, otherwise we get into endless discussions and doubtful inequalities.
• Also often there are tasks that cannot be time / money budgeted accurately in advance, especially not with an emerging operation as this one. So I am afraid that we cannot (in all cases) put a price to things in advance and have to rely on hours worked.
• That said, let’s see how we can prioritise and indicate estimates of effort to certain tasks and evolve collectively over time. Maybe we need categories of tasks that are more routine (like “keep membership register” or “keep finances up to date” ; “run compensations routine at the end of trimester”) while other tasks are more one-off, (e.g. “set up form in website; estimate: 5hours work” or "researching X; 20h)
• I think you get this wrong:

@benhylau

One must first put in hours of labour, without knowing how much compensation there will be until months afterward.

What I wanted to convey, but please review, is that the time worked is compensated with the agreed hourly cost tariff, and maybe in one period there’s not yet enough revenue to compensate it fully, so we keep that work open to be compensated later.
As said, please work into that the task relevance.
The end result should be that the working operational members, after having contributed their annual contribution, get compensated the hourly cost tariff for the relevant tasks. The circles work out their understanding of what is “relevant”.

@osb

How should we track / award sales compensation? It might not be clear who initiated a sales leads (and hence who to pay compensation to) unless we track conversations / outreach…?

that’s an important one, as in some cases at least more than one person/cooperative is involved in getting on board a new member. Which work do we track as part of the Sales process?

@jdaviescoates

I’m ‘just’ a user member, but I’d say that assuming they’ve both done 40+ hours that the first people who should be (back) paid are @chris and @decentral1se, no? As I understand it there wouldn’t be a product to sell if not for all their heroic hard work.

I also think we need to pay back the initial hours invested, and Chris did indeed the most hours. We should devise a plan that is reasonable in paying back the initial investment while also compensating the other team members. Maybe we could include a X% in the compensation framework that goes to pay back those initial hours? Study the registered hours until end august, withdraw annual operational contribution and payback each period with whatever revenue we generate (X% of that).

I leave it up to you and be back to review in 10 days approx, for a quick connect. Cheers!