On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 09:05:40AM -0500, inode0 wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:37:09PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >> >> We would need to form a financial sig that handles that. >> > >> > Are these people going to be paid for their efforts, since it's >> > completely non-technical? >> >> Why is being non-technical related in any way to paying someone to do it? > > It's an administrative role. I'd assume that you'd pay somebody who's > going to be doing this job. If not, that's fine. That's why I asked if > it was going to be paid for, since it's a lot more work than just > writing checks.` > >> > I'm a board member for my kids' summer swim league. And our treasurer >> > has to deal with writing checks for things like buying bulk swim caps, >> > tshirts, meet supplies, reimbursing people for purchases made for the >> > team, etc. And for 8 weeks of her life that's a lot to do. >> > >> > To then ask someone to do the same all year round as a volunteer for >> > a _much_ larger group is probably not going to happen. >> >> You just described a small part of what Ambassadors do now with the >> exception of "cutting check." We do have three community members who >> have been doing that for a long time now as well but the number who >> are able to help in that way is limited by Red Hat's comfort level in >> letting the community participate in making direct payments. > > Are they paid for their efforts? No. John -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
