<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/15 Igor Pires Soares <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:igorsoares@gmail.com">igorsoares@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>From the LATAM side I can say that regional FAmSCo members have been<br>
pushing funding decisions forward since the first ones from our region<br>
were elected. People expect FAmSCo members to deal with it since they<br>
were elected to do it. At least this is the way people think.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><p>when i was at FAmSCo what i tried to do was show people from latam that they dont need FAmSCo members to ask for foundings, FAmSCo help them to track tickets and help them do it. Budgets have been always max responsability (inside or outside FAmSCo ) now that max is pushing foward to give local leaders cc that will make much easier for any person from team $whatever to ask for fundings. Is up todo the budget owner to be reachble to everyone and to us to keep teaching them that we are to help.</p>
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</div>I'm really not sure if creating a non-ambassador body will address this<br>
issue. The person would have to ask another body anyway. I do recognize<br>
that some people have problems asking FAmSCo for money, even inside<br>
ambassadors. But IMHO this is more due to misinformation or because they<br>
don't know someone who might help. This is where regional FAmSCo members<br>
enter, to make a bridge between community needs and the committee. If we<br>
want to create a separated body, it will have to take into consideration<br>
that it should include people who have great understating of regional<br>
communities. And I do believe that FAmSCo members play this part quite<br>
well. If FAmSCo is not the most appropriated body for this task, I am<br>
sure that it has aspects that are good examples for a new body.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>I believe that we should have a "non related to anyone" team handling the money. Business, foundations and even at home, there is only one person /team that handle the money, and I think that in Fedora should be the same.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For example, what if not only packagers want a budget-team for them, but also designers, documentation or even infra? we would have something like 12 budget-teams for a task that a single and completely dedicated team (that I guess should be the ones having the CC) can take care of.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I understand the worries of inode0, and I really believe that he has a +% for his idea, but I think that Max new idea would help a lot more how the money gets to where is needed</div><div><br></div><div>
<br></div><div>Just remember... Ambassadors ARE contributors, contributors and ambassadors are 80% the same thing; if we push decisions that make them believe that they are non-related then we are making bigger the separation instead try to join them.</div>
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