On 13 November 2014 21:44, Rahul Sundaram <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure how much of this still is relevant but...
Not directly, but thank you for your input! > For FUDCon Pune, most of this was the actual budgeting was handled by Amit > Shah who put up a publicly viewable spreadsheet in Google docs. We met > pretty regularly and were very meticulous about adding all the details we > could and that level of transparency was much appreciated by people funding > it. Community arch team also had a wiki page with the overall budget and > what we were spending it in on. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Architecture_expenses > > I only pooled in different sources for the overall budget: The sources I > begged^w asked were Community architecture team which has been superseded by > Open Source and Standards Group (OSAS) in Red Hat, FamSCo which has been > recently superseded by the Outreach Committee, my manager, FPL and GSS. > > From an overall budgeting perspective, as a general tip, budgeting in > Fedora sorta works like government allocation. You have different sources > (not all of them visible) and they sometimes overlap. It doesn't hurt to > ask wherever you can. > > APAC generally received less because we weren't utilizing it enough and when > we really needed it for major events we didn't get it. This problem was > compounded by several people showing up only for events when funded but > without leaving much of a visible impact or any active contributions. So if > we consistently utilize all of the budget allotted (in a useful way!), that > is probably going to work out better. That would involve planning it out This is the overall impression I had too and the meetings so far have confirmed it. > ahead of time for atleast two quarters. I was aware of this problem but > disliked sitting through IRC meetings to coordinate it. If you are up for > that, it could be done. Yeah, we made an event list to coordinate something like this. Hopefully this will make things better. Siddhesh -- http://siddhesh.in _______________________________________________ india mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
