[FAmSCo] Budget status?

[Jiří Eischmann]

Christoph Wickert píše v Ne 17. 03. 2013 v 10:30 +0100:
> Hi Robyn,
> hi Ruth,
> 
> I need to ask you for the status of our budget again. We are now already
> in the FY 2013, but I haven't heard any numbers yet.
> 
> Robyn, do we have a budget? If so, how much is it? If not, what is
> blocking it and when can we expect a budget?
> 
> Ruth, as the budget owner I'd like to ask you how much money did we
> spend in 2012? Do you have numbers for us? If not, what do you need to
> get them for us?
> 
> Jiri, it was brought to my attention that you recently denied approval
> of sponsorship for a contributor because of the missing budget. IHMO
> that was was wrong. If Red Hat fails to provide numbers, that's their
> problem. Please don't make it a problem of the Fedora contributors.

That is kinda misleading. First I didn't deny anything, the decision was
done collectively at the regional meeting. Second we didn't deny it. We
approved it with the condition that the event owner needs to get an
additional approval from the Fedora budget owner (Ruth or Robyn) because
we didn't know if our budget draft would be approved and moreover this
expense wasn't even in the draft, so two levels of uncertainty.
Because they couldn't get an approval from Ruth or Robyn for two weeks,
we just took the risk and approved it at the next regional meeting.

> Until we have a budget, I will rubberstamp all requests I receive. I
> will encourage FAmSCo and the community credit card owners to do the
> same. If we are over budget at the end of the year, it's not our fault.

I told everyone to follow our budget drafts for now and we also approve
expenses that are not particularly planned in the drafts, but somehow
wisely. We can't spend way over the budget. Let's assume the drafts are
approved and behave accordingly. That's probably the best way to go now.

Jiri