On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 12:16:46PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > APAC: $11500 34.8% 151.3% > > EMEA: $21650 65.1% 144.3% > > LATAM: $10950 47.2% 99.5% > > NA: $29400 49.0% 121.5% > > Like I said, here's a starting point. What do you think? > To be clear, the numbers above are contingent on the regions > submitting an actual proposed budget with detailed plans for the > funds, correct? I know that is a departure from previous years, but > given we want to start tracking our money more clearly, I would think > having those budgets and plans in place before funds are allocated > makes sense. Right. I don't — at all — think the Council should micromanage regional activity, but we definitely need to be able to draw lines that connect the dollars to the mission. We need to show that the money benefits Fedora in a concrete way. I know that it's hard to plan precisely when we can't know exactly what the future will hold, but we should have a general idea of the categories and of the big-ticket items — like, for events, call out at least the big names. Things like LUGs and local fests can be grouped together by category (although more advance planning never hurts). I really like how in LATAM's wiki page (although not in the spreadsheet) there's a "Goals" for each item. That both helps me understand in advance _and_ provides a reference for evaluation. It's worth reviwing https://eischmann.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/fam-budget-and-governance-reform/ if you haven't read it before or recently — this is basically the current process. Requests over $2000 are to be approved by FAmSCo under existing rules. I'm not sure what will happen to the future of FAmSCo at this point, but presumably we'll keep that responsibility for either its successor body or the Council directly. -- 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.
