[Ambassadors] FAmSCo elections coming your way

Neville A. Cross neville at taygon.com
Tue Nov 1 03:35:38 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 13:30 -0400, David Nalley wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:25 PM,  <neville at taygon.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Max Spevack <mspevack at fedoraproject.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Hi Ambassadors,
> >>>
> >>> It's been a few months now since I no longer had an active role in the
> >>> resource side of Fedora Ambassadors, and even longer since I was a
> >>> formal member of FAMSCO.
> >>>
> >>> Even so, I wanted to take a few moments to write about some of the
> >>> topics that I'd like to see FAMSCO take a look at over the next year, in
> >>> order to make sure that Ambassadors overall is healthy, and to make sure
> >>> that FAMSCO itself is providing value to the Fedora community at large.
> >>>
> >>> I've organized my thoughts into a few categories:
> >>>
> >>>... snip ...
> >>>
> >>> PAY
> >>>
> >>> Make sure that the regional Ambassador credit card program is still
> >>> working, and not having any issues in terms of bill payment by Red Hat.
> >>> Consider expanding the program by another 1 or 2 people, and work with
> >>> Red Hat's Fedora leadership to determine the best way to do this.
> >>>
> >>> Keep a wiki page that lists every expense that could *not* be paid with
> >>> the community credit cards, and work with Red Hat's Fedora leadership to
> >>> figure out how to get those reimbursed in other ways. Â This wiki page
> >>> can be as simple as a list of trac tickets.
> >>>
> >>> Make sure that there is a reimbursment SLA that is followed by the
> >>> community credit card holders and Red Hat's Fedora leadership who are
> >>> able to reimburse. Â Collaborate w/ Red Hat to come up with a good
> >>> policy
> >>> here.
> >>
> >> I will add here that I haven't had any problems with dealing with this
> >> with Red Hat although I do feel rather in the dark about the current
> >> state of the budget and this has been something bothering me all
> >> along. I think we need some structure whereby community card holders
> >> have a much better understanding of the current state of the overall
> >> budget at frequent points in time to avoid overspending (or the
> >> persistent fear of overspending that comes from being in the dark).
> >>
> >
> > I totally agree with the sense of fear that comes from being on the dark.
> >
> > Neville
> >
> 
> 
> So how do we change this? (and that's not a rhetorical question)
> 
> It strikes me (from the outside, and uninvolved in all of this) that
> we could best do this by delegating all of the Fedora discretionary
> budget to these cardholders, then it becomes up to them to keep the
> records up. (wikipage) And if anyone in CommArch wants to spend out of
> the discretionary budget then they'd come to those folks and get it
> spent.
> 
> Of course, I say this from the outside - I have no real visibility
> into how this all really works.
> 
> Harish? Quaid? Mel? <-- want to weigh in here?
> 
> --David

My first thought was that it may be a lot of work, and that this will
implies reducing other areas of collaboration with the project. Then I
realized that I am not sure how many transactions this will involve, I
can not say if this is a good idea or bad. 


-- 
Neville A. Cross
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