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title: "Board Decision: Best Practices Team Budget Adjustment"
manual: "TYPO3 Community infrastructure"
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permalink: "https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/guide-policy:t3a-board-decision-2026-03-04-best-practices-budget"
source: "Association/Board/Decisions/2026/03-04-BestPracticesBudget.rst"
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# Board Decision: Best Practices Team Budget Adjustment {#t3a-board-decision-2026-03-04-best-practices-budget}

-   *Start of voting:* 8 June 2026
-   *Voting deadline:* 10 June 2026
-   *Decision owner:* [Martin Helmich](https://my.typo3.org/u/mhelmich)
-   *Decision status:* ✅ Accepted, with **4 yes and 3 abstain**

## Attendance and voting {#attendance-and-voting}

| Board Member | Attendance | Vote |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Olivier Dobberkau](https://my.typo3.org/u/oli4) | Asynchronous | ✅ Yes |
| [Stefan Busemann](https://my.typo3.org/u/stefan.busemann) | Asynchronous | ✅ Yes |
| [Boris Hinzer](https://my.typo3.org/u/web-vision) |  | ⚪ Abstain |
| [Rachel Foucard](https://my.typo3.org/u/rakel) | Asynchronous | ✅ Yes |
| [Martin Helmich](https://my.typo3.org/u/mhelmich) | Asynchronous | ✅ Yes |
| [Jana Höffner](https://my.typo3.org/u/janahh) |  | ⚪ Abstain |
| [Thomas Maroschik](https://my.typo3.org/u/tmaroschik) |  | ⚪ Abstain |

## Decision description {#decision-description}

### Facts/Problem {#facts-problem}

1.  The Best Practices Team has requested an increase in their budget from 2,500 € to 5,680 €. The additional budget should cover one on-location sprint and the TYPO3 Developer Days attendance (conference ticket + travel costs) for one team member.
1.  Additional context: The original team budget in 2025 was 4,500 € (see \[Link to original budget application\] for reference). In 2025, they voluntarily reduced their budget to 2,500 € because they did not hold an on-site sprint. The 2,500 € were then also automatically granted for 2026.

### Objective {#objective}

Foster collaboration in the community by enabling the Best Practices team to have an on-location sprint.

### Obligations to cooperate {#obligations-to-cooperate}

-   Best Practices team: Affected by budget change
-   Board/cashier: Needs to implement budget change

### Financial and human resources impacts {#financial-and-human-resources-impacts}

Team budget will increase by EUR 2,000.

Budget may be obtained from the reduced GA budget (was reduced from 10,000 € to 2,000 € in 2026-02-18_Protocol Board Meeting inc BCC).

### Resolution/Petitum {#resolution-petitum}

Increase the Best Practices Team's budget from 2,500 € to 4,500 € to cover their regular expenses (2,500 €) and their on-location sprint in March (2,000 €).

The budget request for one team member's attendance at Developer Days will not be approved. With these expenses, the budget would exceed the original (voluntarily reduced) 2025 budget. Furthermore, the budget is tight (the only reason that increasing this budget by any amount is possible at all is that another one was reduced), and we need to ensure responsible use of our funds.

### Discarded alternatives {#discarded-alternatives}

1.  **Alternative: Leave the budget as-is** Discarded, because this would disincentivise teams from voluntarily reducing their own budget if they don not need it. Also, not having an on-location sprint would be a missed opportunity for community collaboration.
1.  **Alternative: Grant the full budget request** Discarded, because the full budget as requested would be higher than the original team budget of 2025, which was voluntarily reduced.

### Attachments {#attachments}

1.  \[Link to team's budget application 2025\]
1.  \[Link to team's budget application 2026\]

### Comments {#comments}

1.  [Martin Helmich](https://my.typo3.org/u/mhelmich): \[redacted, board-internal only\]