On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, David Nalley wrote: >> Riffing on that a bit, I think there's an equal amount of optimizing >> and perhaps consolidating of roles when you think about some of the >> fuzzier parts of Fedora. >> >> For instance, why can't there be one group of people that >> collectively figures out a globally consistent way to handle budget >> requests -- whether that is for a FUDCon, a FAD, a booth at a local >> event, media, swag, travel funding, etc. >> >> Streamline a lot of stuff, and do a better job of making sure that >> people know the discretionary/day-to-day budget that Red Hat >> allocates to the Fedora Project can be used by *anyone* or *any >> group* within our community that needs a monetary investment to >> support or help turn ideas into reality. > > Why would we create yet another group to do this? FAmSCo already > manages around $100k worth of budget (though it's been heavily > delegated for the past few years, with FAmSCo retaining responsibility > but largely pushing decision making down) Tacking on Premier Fedora > events and discretionary funds roughly doubles that, but I can't > imagine that the structure already in place wouldn't scale to meet > that. Moreover, that group tends to be more involved in the > organization of premier Fedora events than any other sub-group within > Fedora. > > <disclaimer> I am on FAmSCo for a few more months, and have proposed > this idea before </disclaimer> Actually, I think we agree with each other here, David. We do have the organization in place. I think that the suggestion isn't a revolutionary change, but rather an acknowledged increase in scope, and perhaps a name change to indicate that the funding pool is not only for Ambassadors, but for all contributors. --Max _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
