Hi, I unfortunately wasn't able to attend the Resource Allocator Summit but wanted to reply to a few of the points in the minutes; hopefully Ben & Kathy's report out to the community will be able to address some of these questions.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Galen Charlton <[email protected]> wrote: <heavily snipped> > Equinox's idea lab a potential model? Could more context be provided for this question? If the discussion was about adopting the Equinox Idea Lab as-is, it quite bluntly seems like a way of centralizing funding, communications, and control of development within a single company, and I'm fundamentally wary of any such centralization. > - If there were "pre-conference" events added to the annual > conference, should there be an additional charge for an added day > - Tutorials--ways to use these to raise community funds? The PostgreSQL project successfully uses this model for several of their conferences; there are one or two days of pre-conferences, with half-day or full-day tutorial sessions, and the funds from the tutorials are split between the presenter(s) and the conference, with the fund split ranging from 30/70 to 50/50. Per http://www.pgcon.org/2014/registration.php the per-tutorial rate is $60/half-day. (And if you want to learn more about PostgreSQL, I would highly recommend attending PGCon!) > Needs identified: > > -Volunteers > -Time > -Predictable Resourcing What aspects of predictable resourcing were discussed? Financial contributions to pooled funding? Sweat equity, such as organizations pledging to devote 1 person-day of their own developer/documentation/graphic design/other skilled resources per week for a year to a common effort? > -Projects meeting needs of members (control meme) More info / examples of projects not meeting members' needs would be appreciated so we can analyze the mistakes that were made and improve our efforts in the future. > > Brilliant ideas identified: > > -coffee fund for developers (incentive) Huh. Did the developers in the room confirm this would be more of an incentive than recognition? Thanks, Dan
