Hi Latam team,
Today I talk with bex at telegram about FUDCon. It looks like we had the
information wrong: FUDCon is not dead, but it isn't alive either.
The conversation flows about money and objectives:
There is no new request to get money for something, so I am confused as to
> why I see so much depression. there is money - it just needs justification
>
Council reduced Q1 budgets to get us through the mission conversation
>
There is no desire to directly cut the regions, but we would like to align
> spending project wide around the mission and ensure that we are having
> impact or expecting to have impact. That we are reviewing outcomes, etc.
> And that we know why we are doing things.
>
As an example, the FUDCon budget lines were removed as the current FUDCons
> weren't having the kind of impact they were supposed to. By removing those
> budget line items we didn't eliminate the money
>
Also he clarify:
instead we eliminated the requirement that it has to be used as a FUDCon -
> this is especially true where something different might be better.
>
However, if the best use in a region is a FUDCon that is very possible
>
There is DEFINITELY money. We just want to allocate it based on a plan
> with justifications and goals. We aren't defaulting to saying here is $$
> for FUDCon no questions asked
>
So there are good news, FUDCon is possible yet. The only requirement is to
be clear about the objectives we want to accomplish with having a FUDCon in
an specific location.
For example, the Bid for Latinoware (Brazil/Paraguay) was read and still
don't answer the Council questions:
- Justification about the location.
- Which are the goals of the FUDCon on Latinoware.
- What will be the impact we expect for the FUDCon?
- What are we doing to achieve these goals specifically?
- Why do we think we will be successful?
- How do we continue this work after FUDCon?
This was taked as example, but IMHO all bids lacks of this information.
Remember that the project is changing the mission and we need to align with
this.
For now, the ones who still wants to have a FUDCon needs to refocus their
bids and try to answer the Council's questions.
The messages is: Focus and efforts needs to be measure, we need to think in
the impact we want to cause with each event, and we need to be able to
reflect that impact.
Br,
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