On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 06:02:41PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > I have had some experience with budgets and can help if needed. Thanks! That'd be awesome. > > - Given the long period between request and actual budget, makes > > sense to also have a second round of planning at the start of the > I would say that this should go with the quarterly budget reviews as > sort of review 0. Because budget meetings can become long vast times > of "KILL ME NOW." type meetings these are especially good to have an > agenda, and someone who is going to run that meeting quickly and > cleanly with all sorts of side conversations to be tabled onto mailing > lists or ticket systems. Good advice. > > - NA ambassadors in particular need to get a budget organized. APAC > > and LATAM need to get better at spending the money that's > > budgeted. > Since EMEA isn't mentioned, I am guessing it is running smoothly. Yes, roughly. :) > Would it help if they went over what they are doing well? It's nothing elaborate: they have a planning FAD every year, regularly keep their budget page up to date, and keep close track of spending and reimbursements. > > Not mentioned at the meeting, but a thing I'm concerned with and have > > mentioned before: having a Fedora presence at conferences is good, but > > is it the best use of Fedora money? Do we grow new users at Linux fests > > in the 21st century? What things could we do instead? > Would need to have a longer description of what you are meaning here > to be able to say anything. Will respond in Mo's message. :) -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/council-discuss The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
