2011/2/15 Igor Pires Soares <igorsoares@gmail.com>

From the LATAM side I can say that regional FAmSCo members have been
pushing funding decisions forward since the first ones from our region
were elected. People expect FAmSCo members to deal with it since they
were elected to do it. At least this is the way people think.

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.

I'm really not sure if creating a non-ambassador body will address this
issue. The person would have to ask another body anyway. I do recognize
that some people have problems asking FAmSCo for money, even inside
ambassadors. But IMHO this is more due to misinformation or because they
don't know someone who might help. This is where regional FAmSCo members
enter, to make a bridge between community needs and the committee. If we
want to create a separated body, it will have to take into consideration
that it should include people who have great understating of regional
communities. And I do believe that FAmSCo members play this part quite
well. If FAmSCo is not the most appropriated body for this task, I am
sure that it has aspects that are good examples for a new body.

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.

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.

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

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.

my 1$ that jsmith and spevack owe me goes there :)