On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 04:14:03PM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Regarding the budget: For me, fF/hDI scenario sounds best, but frankly > speaking I'm not happy with it either. It's not that I don't like the > scenario, but the overall process. It's hard to vote on abstract > scenarios without knowing what they actually mean for the people. We > want to support some outreachy stuff, but do we actually have ideas > how to spend 5k? What events do we attend? Who will attend these > events? This actually is a specific line item. One Outreachy intern costs 5k. > Ultimately, we want Fedora to be a flat hierarchy. Decisions-making > should happen bottom-up and on the lowest possible level. Scenarios on > the other hand seem very top-down. I want people doing work to be empowered, yes. However, we also need spending to be focused on best impact, and it's hard to do that without bringing the low-level decision-making together — which somewhat inevitably makes it higher-level. > FAmSCo has been working hard to delegate as much responsibility down > to the regions. This process has been working well and inspired people > to participate. Therefor I suggest we first look at what they request, > make some adjustments and once we know how much we need for regional > support, we know how much is left for FADs and Outreachy. I agree that for the regional activities, we want responsibility at the regional level. That's why I'd like to move the regional planning FAD line items — and possibly FUDCons as well — to the regional budgets. But your suggestion seems to have the basic assumption that regional support is the most important spending. I don't think that's necessarily true. There are things we can do globally or centrally which are also worth funding and should't necessarily be determined by where contributors happen to live. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
