#43: Create the Fedora Public Budget Page -------------------------------------------------+------------------------- Reporter: decause | Owner: decause Status: new | Priority: normal Component: General | Resolution: Keywords: budget, websites, FCL, | transparency, community | -------------------------------------------------+------------------------- Comment (by cwickert): Thanks for taking the lead on this. The lack of transparency wrt. the budget has been a problem for years. After Max left, nobody took over and with the shift from CommArch to OSAS, things got worse. Thus the last numbers we have in the wiki are from FY 2012 and 2013. Replying to [ticket:43 decause]: > establishing a new page (wiki or otherwise) that will track the timeline and particulars of the Fedora Public Budget. It shall include: > > Budgetary Components, Projected and Adjusted for each fiscal year: > - Regional Budget Allocations (APAC/EMEA/LATAM/NA) > - Fedora Premier Event Budgets (FLOCK, FUDCons) > - Central Discretionary Fund (approved by Council) > - FAD specific Budgets I agree. Please note that currently FADs are considered premiere events just like FLOCK and FUDCons. A [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Premier_Fedora_Events premiere event] is whatever is mainly about Fedora vs. an event we simply attend. > Budgetary Milestones and Timelines: > - August: In person meeting at FLOCK While meeting people in person always is a good idea, I wonder what the exact purpose of this meeting would be. It's definitely not a good idea for creating the actual budget. Compiling a list of events not only requires a lot of people (we usually have 10 - 15 at the EMEA budgeting FAD), but also a lot of time. This means we would fly a lot of people to FLOCK who then hardly have time to do anything but the budget. > - September: Proposed budget components and metrics from each region What kind of metrics do you have in mind? > - October: Ratification of Proposed Budget by Council > - March: Confirmation of Received budget w/ Adjustment Meeting > - Quarterly Check-ins with Regional Treasurers > - Halfly approvals of Regional Funds, pending metrics and outcomes reporting While the first two points are pretty clear, I wonder what the last two are supposed to be. In particular: * How would the check-ins work? How can we make sure we actually have regional treasurers? Hint: The more freedom and responsibility they get, the more people are willing to do this job. * What exactly needs to be approved and when? We currently have a very fine-grained approval process that takes into account the regional differences. A lot of experiaince and work has been put into it, so I suggest to not change the approval process until we are sure we have something that works better. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/43#comment:2> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets _______________________________________________ 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.
