[Ambassadors] Fedora Budget.next -, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Budget.next

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On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 01:57:41AM +0200, Zacharias Mitzelos wrote:
>> Checking the budget every quarter seems like a good idea, as we could
>> have a better overview of how we have been doing so far. But at least in
>> the EMEA, some people when they get funding approval to participate in
>> events, they submit their receipts for reimbursement after several
>> months, and as a result we get mixed up when re-allocating funds.
>
> Just for the record, we need to be careful with that, as Red Hat will
> not reimburse after 90 days.
>
>> So I would propose if we are going to revise the regional budgets every
>> quarter to re-allocate unspent funds, then we should toughen the process
>> of reimbursement and ask for people to submit receipts(along with event
>> reports, etc) within for eg. 2 weeks after the event takes place.
>
> Honestly, I don't see why people _wouldn't_ want to do that.
> (Obviously, sometimes stuff comes up, but... in general.)

While we try to accommodate everyone with legitimate expenses please
note that you are required to submit expenses within 2 weeks as
described in the deadlines section here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reimbursements

John