# Could FarmOS Community support GOAT booth at CANVAS? **URL:** \ **Category:** Community\ **Tags:** conference\ **Created:** [October 16, 2026, 9:10pm UTC](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/could-farmos-community-support-goat-booth-at-canvas/2623 "2026-10-16T21:10:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![mstenta](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/farmos.discourse.group/mstenta/32/4_2.png) [@mstenta](https://farmos.discourse.group/u/mstenta)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/could-farmos-community-support-goat-booth-at-canvas/2623/2 "2026-10-17T12:20:55Z")
I’m OK with contributing $410 from the farmOS OpenCollective to this - but we should follow the community funding proposal procedure. @gbathree can you please reformat this as a funding proposal? Basically just need to add the `funding-proposal` tag, standard frontmatter, and a poll for voting. Search past proposals for examples. Normally requests should be made at least a month in advance to give time for comments/voting. We can make exceptions when deadlines are tight, but ideally that should be rare. When do you need these funds released by? FYI: I wrote up thoughts for more formal funding proposal guidelines a while back… would love to get feedback/changes and to formalize this process more. I think it’s important that we allow everyone who is contributing to the OpenCollective a chance to chime in. > [@Funding proposal policy discussion](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/funding-proposal-policy-discussion/1843): > > I’d like to discuss our current approach to farmOS “funding proposals”, which we use to propose expenditures from our OpenCollective balance: [farmOS - Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/farmOS) We currently have a loosely defined policy/methodology, whereby someone can create a forum topic with the funding-proposal tag, which describes their proposal, and includes a poll to vote yes/no on it. That’s worked fine so far. But I think it would be worth standardizing a bit more, and solidifying some of the policy rules to an… --- _[View the full topic](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/could-farmos-community-support-goat-booth-at-canvas/2623)._