On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 09:11:45AM -0600, inode0 wrote: >> > - I would almost prefer to see premier events not be split out >> > separately, and instead force the Council to transparently allocate >> It isn't quite clear to me if the Fedora Premier Events are still >> intended to be the responsibility of OSAS or of the Council. I think >> moving them to the Council, whether lumped with Discretionary Council >> Budget or not would be good for transparency and Council flexibility. > > From the wiki, the word "premier" label means: > > * organized by the Fedora community > * all about Fedora > > I find this a little odd, because the word literally means "most > important or best", and I don't think that's actually what we mean. > > My preference would be to not use this label for FADs. If we want to > keep using the word, let's call Flock _the_ premier global Fedora > event, and FUDCons premier regional events. I don't think we even need > a special term for FADs. Agreed. > And, I think *some* FADs make sense from the central community budget > (whether we call that the Council budget or something else), while > others — like the ambassadors' planning FADs — make sense to me to be > part of the regional budgets directly. Also agreed. E.g. a rel-eng FAD would likely come from the central budget. > This implies regionalizing some things which have not been > traditionally in the ambassadors scope — for example, a translation > activity day focused a language or languages of a region might be best > planned and organized within that region. Yes. Though it might require us to examine the regional budget allocation a bit more closely after the first year to make sure regions are getting enough budget to cover such things. josh _______________________________________________ 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.
