Fedora Budget.next - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Budget.next

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Remy DeCausemaker <decause at redhat.com> wrote:
> Ambassadors,
>
> As some of you may be aware, there have been some changes to how Budget is
> proposed and allocated for the coming fiscal year. This conversation has
> been happening on the Council-discuss list, and through meetings with
> members of the OSAS team:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/council-discuss/2015-October/013742.html
>
> With input from the council, OSAS, and other Ambassador Leads, I've taken
> the results of these budget meetings up until this point, and the
> discussions around FOSCo/FAMSCo, and created a wiki page to help explain our
> best understanding of how things should work going forward. The policy seen
> here is a blend of the results from public discussions and meetings over the
> past year on mailing lists, in IRC, and at FLOCK:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Budget.next

A few comments/questions.

- I would almost prefer to see premier events not be split out
separately, and instead force the Council to transparently allocate
them from their budget.  This would lead to a very large budget for
the Council on paper, but it allows us 1) provide transparency around
what we view as important enough to spend money on, b) gives us
greater flexibility overall to cover events which are going to vary in
cost.

- How are the three regional budget delegates going to be chosen?

- Is there an education and review plan to make sure they are
successful in these roles?

- What happens if there is difficulty getting 3 people to volunteer
for these roles?

- Reimbursement after an Event Report doesn't work very well for
premier events.  The attendee has already traveled to the event and
had their accommodations covered for the most part.  That is typically
because they have submitted an accepted talk or some other valuable
contribution to the event itself.  You might wish to rephrase this a
bit.

- With only one guaranteed travel accommodation included as a benefit,
I fear we're going to run into difficulties deciding who gets that
benefit out of the three.

josh