[Ambassadors] the "premier" label [was Re: Fedora Budget.next - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Budget.next]

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 09:11:45AM -0600, inode0 wrote:
> > - I would almost prefer to see premier events not be split out
> > separately, and instead force the Council to transparently allocate
> It isn't quite clear to me if the Fedora Premier Events are still
> intended to be the responsibility of OSAS or of the Council. I think
> moving them to the Council, whether lumped with Discretionary Council
> Budget or not would be good for transparency and Council flexibility.

>From the wiki, the word "premier" label means:

 * organized by the Fedora community
 * all about Fedora

I find this a little odd, because the word literally means "most
important or best", and I don't think that's actually what we mean.

My preference would be to not use this label for FADs. If we want to
keep using the word, let's call Flock _the_ premier global Fedora
event, and FUDCons premier regional events. I don't think we even need
a special term for FADs.

And, I think *some* FADs make sense from the central community budget
(whether we call that the Council budget or something else), while
others — like the ambassadors' planning FADs — make sense to me to be
part of the regional budgets directly.

This implies regionalizing some things which have not been
traditionally in the ambassadors scope — for example, a translation
activity day focused a language or languages of a region might be best
planned and organized within that region.


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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader