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

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 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.

Agreed.

> 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.

Also agreed.  E.g. a rel-eng FAD would likely come from the central budget.

> 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.

Yes.  Though it might require us to examine the regional budget
allocation a bit more closely after the first year to make sure
regions are getting enough budget to cover such things.

josh