On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:45:42AM -0700, Mark Terranova wrote:
I am of opinion that funding is needed, or this is 'token effort' (sorry
We definitely _can_ fund specific things; we just have to know what they are and plan for them. And we _actually are_. For example, in the ongoing budget discussion, we've set aside a chunk for an Outreachy intern — the first time we've planned that in advance rather than approving it from (basically) slush fund.
As you've seen (and been part of!), the historical process has been to allocate everything to Ambassadors in the regions, so this is new. I'd also like to see the Ambassadors consider diversity as important in regional spending, not something that needs to be funded separately and centrally. If that's not working, we can and should plan for a separate diversity budget for FY18. (We'll be working at that at Flock.)