Le Mon, 8 Dec 2008 12:27:39 +0100 (CET),
Max Spevack <mspevack(a)redhat.com> a écrit :
Hi Ambassadors,
I'm a bit late with this, but I want to start talking about how we
can divide up our Q4 money worldwide.
There are two very specific goals that I have for the current round
of budget:
(1) Support the events that are taking place in December, January,
and February.
(2) Give regions the resources that they need to create swag, CDs,
and any sort of marketing materials that the regional leadership
wants. The hope is that all the stuff created can last for the
entirety of the Fedora 10 release cycle, or reusable resources that
folks need. In short, long-term planning with short-term money.
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I've combined the "Global events and swag" line item with the "Fedora
10 marketing" line item, and removed a few thousand dollars to stash
aside as a "buffer" that I like to maintain each quarter, for the
unexpected.
With that in mind, I want to discuss how we can allocate about $23k
wisely.
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I'm going to start with EMEA, because all year long, I've been
planning that a big chunk of this Q4 money needs to go to the
Fedora-fr team, to really jump-start their 2009 planning, give them
the resources that they need for Linux Solutions, and to cover some
swag production and smaller events that they organize. To that end,
I'm going to earmark $5,000 USD for Fedora France (about 4000 EUR at
today's exchange rates). My hope is that we can give Fedora France
most of the money they'll need for 2009 now, and future budget needs
will be a bit smaller. Feedback from the French team would be great.
Another $5,000 USD (about 4000 EUR) should cover the rest of EMEA not
only for Q4 (which includes FOSDEM), but also for creating any swag
that will be used further down the road. I think that we need some
new posters (the old ones are getting pretty beaten up), stickers, or
whatever else folks want to purchase.
EMEA -- about $10,000 USD total (about 8000 EUR), which will be
transferred to either Fedora-fr non-profit or the Fedora EMEA e.V.
non-profit.
Hello Max !
I'm very glad you decided to lend us such amount of money. This is
obviously the higher amount we cold have dreamt of.
I say "lend" because it represent an investment from Fedora Project to
lend this money, as the whole projet benefits from the incredible job
that every French ambassador achieve on his own. This lets us a wide
field of action to actively promote fedora in France AND other French
speaking countries, which are going to be more and more our targets in
the upcoming months.
As usual, if we have more money than we have dreams, we will not
accept more money and will continue to live on what you offered us.
We had a successful install fest this week end, I will come very soon
with a little report about it with nice pictures. ;)
Thanks a lot,
Regards
Thomas Canniot
NA -- From an event perspective, Q4 is a bunch of smaller events, so
in my mind I set aside about $2,000 for that. I'd like to set aside
another $5,000 USD for the NA leadership to tell me the best way to
spend it. Some of it is already allocated for the purchase of
stickers in NA that Mairin Duffy is taking care of.
NA -- about $7,000 USD total.
LATAM doesn't have any events at all in Q4, but I'd still like to get
about $3,000 USD spent on our behalf in that region, just to start to
get shirts, stickers, posters, or whatever stuff they'll need as next
year's conference season gets started. I expect that we'll spend
more money on LATAM in the early parts of next year's budget.
LATAM -- about $3,000 USD total.
APAC -- I'd like to let Harish Pillay take charge (from Singapore) of
getting a bunch of Fedora swag made up and available for distribution
in that region to our Ambassadors. For this, and also for funding
some of the events currently in that region, I'm allocating about
$3,000.
APAC -- about $3,000 USD total.
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Other things to consider:
Sankarshan continues to manage a budget for community stuff in India,
so swag production in India as well as individual Ambassadors who
need funding should go directly to him (but feel free to Cc me).
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Feedback is welcome.
Thanks,
Max
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