[council] #43: Create the Fedora Public Budget Page

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#43: Create the Fedora Public Budget Page
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 Reporter:  decause                              |       Owner:  decause
   Status:  new                                  |    Priority:  normal
Component:  General                              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  budget, websites, FCL,               |
  transparency, community                        |
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Comment (by cwickert):

 Thanks for taking the lead on this.  The lack of transparency wrt. the
 budget has been a problem for years.  After Max left, nobody took over and
 with the shift from CommArch to OSAS, things got worse.  Thus the last
 numbers we have in the wiki are from FY 2012 and 2013.

 Replying to [ticket:43 decause]:
 > establishing a new page (wiki or otherwise) that will track the timeline
 and particulars of the Fedora Public Budget. It shall include:
 >
 > Budgetary Components, Projected and Adjusted for each fiscal year:
 >  - Regional Budget Allocations (APAC/EMEA/LATAM/NA)
 >  - Fedora Premier Event Budgets (FLOCK, FUDCons)
 >  - Central Discretionary Fund (approved by Council)
 >  - FAD specific Budgets

 I agree.  Please note that currently FADs are considered premiere events
 just like FLOCK and FUDCons. A
 [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Premier_Fedora_Events premiere event] is
 whatever is mainly about Fedora vs. an event we simply attend.


 > Budgetary Milestones and Timelines:
 >  - August: In person meeting at FLOCK

 While meeting people in person always is a good idea, I wonder what the
 exact purpose of this meeting would be.

 It's definitely not a good idea for creating the actual budget.  Compiling
 a list of events not only requires a lot of people (we usually have 10 -
 15 at the EMEA budgeting FAD), but also a lot of time.  This means we
 would fly a lot of people to FLOCK who then hardly have time to do
 anything but the budget.

 >  - September: Proposed budget components and metrics from each region

 What kind of metrics do you have in mind?

 >  - October: Ratification of Proposed Budget by Council
 >  - March: Confirmation of Received budget w/ Adjustment Meeting
 >  - Quarterly Check-ins with Regional Treasurers
 >  - Halfly approvals of Regional Funds, pending metrics and outcomes
 reporting

 While the first two points are pretty clear, I wonder what the last two
 are supposed to be. In particular:
 * How would the check-ins work?  How can we make sure we actually have
 regional treasurers?  Hint: The more freedom and responsibility they get,
 the more people are willing to do this job.
 * What exactly needs to be approved and when?  We currently have a very
 fine-grained approval process that takes into account the regional
 differences. A lot of experiaince and work has been put into it, so I
 suggest to not change the approval process until we are sure we have
 something that works better.

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