#58: Regional allocation for FY17 budget ---------------------+-------------------- Reporter: mattdm | Owner: Status: new | Priority: major Component: General | Resolution: Keywords: | ---------------------+-------------------- Comment (by mattdm): Replying to [comment:5 cwickert]: > Works for me and should work for EMEA. I cannot speak for the other regions though. I have some concerns about LATAM, they get less than they spent last year and due to bad tracking, this is already a subset of what they actually spent. That is true; LATAM definitely came out the lowest here by any measure. That's largely because their ''request'' was significantly lower than that from the other regions, which doesn't really seem like a good reason to penalize. Do you have a concrete alternate proposal? > > 2. Back to the regions, who will come up with quarterly splits > What's the timeframe for this? There was talk about it being four weeks. If we consider that spending in the last two weeks of a quarter needs to be budgeted and accounted for in the next quarter (see meeting log), that could mean two weeks after quarter start. Can you help me understand why this can't just be ''continuously'' kept up to date, though, making it just a matter of taking a snapshot? > > Additionally, after each quarterly budget report (see https://budget.fedoraproject.org/), any unspent funds will revert to the council and be reallocated. (To be used for centralized projects like FADs, or to cover special requests by the regions.) > > -1. Unlike the global/council budget, the regions already need to make cuts. If they can save money on event A in Q1, I see no reason why that should not use this money to spend the saved money on event B in Q2. In fact, they might only spend what that had initially planned, so I think it's unfair to take this money from them. The goal is to make sure that the budgeted funds are actually all spent (in meaningful ways, of course). It isn't to penalize the region for underspending. I'm okay with modifying the above to say that regions can do their own internal quarter-to-quarter reallocation of unspent money as long as it is reported up (and as long as it really does end up being made use of). But if the region ''doesn't'' have a solid plan, we do still have plenty of central needs (or possibly there's a strong unplanned need in another region). -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/58#comment:6> 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 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.
