[Ambassadors] Fedora-Fr activities and financial reports (aka « Aren't they asking too much money? » :)

[Yaakov Nemoy]

Hey Mathieu,

2010/3/4 Mathieu Bridon <bochecha at fedoraproject.org>:
> Hi fellow Ambassadors.
<snip>
> Well, Thomas Canniot (our ever-awesome treasurer) and I (the guy who
> won't  be long to make stupid jokes about French clichés) worked hard
> on it tonight, and we are proud to present to you the Fedora-Fr annual
> reports:
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Fr_annual_report_2009
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Fr_annual_report_2010
>
> Each page details (or will) our planned budget at the beginning of the
> fiscal year, and our effective budget and activity report at the end
> of it.
>
> Hopefully, this will both help clear the concerns people might have,
> as well as help Max better estimate how much money we really deserve
> (which could very well be much less than what we are asking).
>
> If you still have any doubt, do not hesitate to ask here or on IRC,
> we'll make it a duty to answer all questions. After all, where there's
> money involved, tensions might arise, and we all want to stay close to
> the Fedora Project's second Foundation (that would be « Friends » for
> those of you weren't paying attention :)
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> ----------
> Mathieu Bridon
>
>
> PS : For those of you who would like to know more about what it is we
> do (apart from drinking wine and walking around with a baguette and a
> beret), we also used the occasion to create a new « French_team »
> category that will hold all of our activities in the future:
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:French_team
>
> It's currently pretty empty, but we'll make sure to retroactively add
> all the pages that we disseminated through the wiki for all these
> years.

This is exactly the kind of transparency we should see from the French
speaking community. A big thanks to everyone who was involved in
producing this report. I think that it's great to have a resource on
the Fedora Wiki that we can point to to show exactly what this group
has been up to.

Cheers,
Yaakov