----- On Nov 6, 2015, at 11:15 PM, Josh Boyer jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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. +1 too. FAD is smaller than Flock or FUDCon. Some FADs are less than 10 attendees. The process to organize a FAD is also different from FUDCon/Flock's one and budget allocation process should be different too. >> 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. +1 too. This could make regional community more active. >> 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. +1. Actually, we are doing something similar this. Rgds, Tuan _______________________________________________ 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.
