Hi and Welcome to the budget-devel list,
I put this together so we could have mechanical conversations about the
budget process.
This list is not for money requests and is open to subscribers.
So, first topic:
Several of you liked the idea of restricting the Expense Categories to
those we have to report to Red Hat, however some folks would like to be
able to keep some extra detail. I suggest the following idea:
Expense Categories must be one of the following:
* Expense:Transportation
* Expense:Mileage
* Expense:Fuel
* Expense:Car Rental
* Expense:Parking/Tolls
* Expense:Taxi/Limo
* Expense:Lodging
* Expense:Meals
* Expense:Business Meeting
* Expense:Courier/Shipping
* Expense:Office Supplies
* Expense:Dues/Subscriptions/Books
* Expense:Mobile Phone
* Expense:Internet
* Expense:Late Fees
* Expense:Finance Charges
* Expense:Trade Show
* Expense:Outside Services/Training
* Expense:Employee Relations (flowers)
* Expense:Contributions/Donations
* Expense:Other Marketing Costs
* Expense:On-line Advertising
* Expense:Printing/Reproduction
However, you can add more detail by adding subcategories, so, for
example, if you wanted to track different kinds of SWAG, you might use:
Expense:Other Marketing Costs:T-shirts
Expense:Other Marketing Costs:Stickers
Does this make sense?
Basically, anything you put after the category, with a colon (:)
separator is able to be reported, but we still roll up only to the
master categories.
What do you think?
regards,
bex
PS: I am working on some docs, so if we want to colloborate on these we
can document them for everyone to use.
