On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 01:57:41AM +0200, Zacharias Mitzelos wrote:
> Checking the budget every quarter seems like a good idea, as we could
> have a better overview of how we have been doing so far. But at least in
> the EMEA, some people when they get funding approval to participate in
> events, they submit their receipts for reimbursement after several
> months, and as a result we get mixed up when re-allocating funds.
Just for the record, we need to be careful with that, as Red Hat will
not reimburse after 90 days.
> So I would propose if we are going to revise the regional budgets every
> quarter to re-allocate unspent funds, then we should toughen the process
> of reimbursement and ask for people to submit receipts(along with event
> reports, etc) within for eg. 2 weeks after the event takes place.
Honestly, I don't see why people _wouldn't_ want to do that.
(Obviously, sometimes stuff comes up, but... in general.)
While we try to accommodate everyone with legitimate expenses please
note that you are required to submit expenses within 2 weeks as
described in the deadlines section here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reimbursements
John