[FAmSCo] FY14 Budget update

[Jiří Eischmann]

Robyn Bergeron píše v Čt 28. 03. 2013 v 06:39 -0700:
> Greetings, lovely folks of FAmSCo:
> 
> The "Regional Support" portion of the FY14 Budget can be seen here:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FY14_Budget
> 
> Please note that the "Premier Fedora Events" and "Discretionary
> Spending" portions of the overall Fedora budget are not outlined on
> this page and are still being balanced a bit and will be forthcoming
> as soon as possible.
> 
> The total amount for FY14 regional support is $91,600; for reference,
> the budget in FY2013 was $71,500; in FY2012 was $80,000; in FY11 was
> $100,000.
> 
> As noted on the wiki page, some guidance around allocations per region
> per quarter has been provided, based upon proportions of regional
> requests; this is for FAmSCo/Regional ambassador team convenience,
> because math sucks.  Some regions of the world may have been more
> optimistic or realistic than others, and I don't want these
> allocations to become a reason to purposefully request things outside
> a rational scope in order to compete for dollars. I believe that over
> the years, all of the regional teams have done an excellent job of
> balancing out budget and working with other regions to do what's
> needed and right in terms of budget handling, and I expect that to
> continue, since you guys are awesome.
> 
> Regarding last year's spending; I will work with folks in OSAS to get
> these numbers published & outlined on the Accounting page, and then
> move the numbers from FY14_Budget over to a page resembling
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Architecture_expenses but
> including the OSAS name.
> 
> Let myself or Ruth know if you have questions. Thanks for your patience!

Hmm... I can't speak for other regions, but for us, EMEA, it's going to
be drastic.
I don't want to start a fight between regions because we're on the same
boat after all, but I don't think that cutting all regional budgets by
the same percentage is fair because while EMEA, APAC, and LATAM provided
budgets with no reserves. NA went bold and asked for much more than
anyone else which now looks like the best chosen strategy, I admit.
In our case, 30k was realistic estimation. We assumed that not
everything we planned would happen, but there have already been events
and expenses we didn't plan, so I was hoping we'd balance it around the
budget amount.
Giving up 10-15 % of the budget would still be somehow doable, but
cutting it down to 22k from 30k means we'll have to reduce our planned
activities significantly.

Jiri