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Continuing with the new elements introduced in last year's planning and budget process, each Joomla! leadership team (Production Leadership Team, Community Leadership Team, and Open Source Matters) has set major goals for 2012. This goal setting effort has the following benefits:

• Allows our project’s budget to be a more effective tool for supporting the project's planned priorities for the upcoming year.
• Allows each leadership team to better understand what the other leadership teams are planning to work on, which will improve inter-team collaboration and support.
• Allows the community to be aware of goals and priorities for the upcoming year, which will improve transparency and openness and enable increased support and volunteer contributions.
• Will make it easier to bring in more sponsorship contributions, due to prospective sponsors having a better understanding about what initiatives their contributions will be supporting.

Links to the major 2012 goals for each Joomla! leadership team are listed below.

PLT's 2012 goals (these were published as proposed, but no changes were made for their final goals):
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1519-proposed-plt-2012-goals.html



CLT's 2012 goals (these were published as proposed goals, but no changes were made for their final goals):
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1521-proposed-2012-clt-goals.html



OSM's 2012 goals final goals

http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1590-osm-goals-for-2012.html

The 2012 budget has been approved.   Even though we conservatively predict a 79 thousand dollar deficit we anticipate that this will improve as the second half of 2012 unfolds.  The original numbers that were compiled from the leadership teams earlier this year had expenses that have not been as high while some revenues are running slightly ahead of what was anticipated.   We should be closer to a break even situation by the end of 2012.  Any deficit that does occur will be absorbed by the surplus from last year and the current cash reserves.

The Joomla! project is pleased to publish its final 2012 budget.

Please discuss this blog here: http://people.joomla.org/groups/viewdiscussion/1504-2012-budget.html?groupid=714