[FAmSCo] Regional budget proposals for FY2015

[Jiri Eischmann]

Ruth Suehle píše v Út 11. 02. 2014 v 14:08 -0500:
> > What just came across my mind and we haven't yet discussed in FAmSCo is
> > that we might want to have some small budget above regions which FAmSCo
> > would be responsible for directly because there have been activities
> > that are pretty much global and are not related to any region
> > specifically, for example the F19 and "10 years of Fedora" t-shirts. It
> > doesn't make much sense to divide them among regions.
> 
> 
> We're in the process of budget requests now, and I've requested that the Fedora budget not be cut any, by which I mean it's definitely not going to be higher. So we can reallocate how we track it (it doesn't make any difference to Red Hat how much we considered "LATAM" vs "NA"), but as always goes with budgeting, that just means subtracting some from somewhere else. I don't think it's a bad idea though. I always feel a little bad that things like AWS fees and the LWN membership get tracked as NA even though they're used by everyone.

We kinda expected that we won't get what we're asking for. Having the
same budget as last year is IMHO good considering some regions have had
difficulties to spend all their budget for this fiscal year.

I think it totally makes sense to take expenses that are not
region-specific from regional budgets and put them in one global budget
that FAmSCo will be responsible for.

Can you please identify and quantify such expenses? I think we can add,
say, $2,000 for all other global activities such as t-shirt production
and that's it.

Then we still need some input from the NA community. I'm ok with
allocating the money the same way we did last year (portions based on
proposed regional budgets) as long as the regional budgets reflect how
the regions have been successful in fulfilling the plans for this fiscal
year. We tried to ensure it with EMEA, APAC, and LATAM budgets for
FY2015, but didn't really have any numbers from NA.

Jiri