On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Christoph Wickert wrote:
BTW: We didn't use the whole budget but because of the late order
we
only did 300 media for a total of 2,376.62 EUR = $3,380.
Well, we will all collectively (and I in particular on my end) make sure
we get a purchase order for F15 media in EMEA opened far in advance even
of the final images being ready.
> FY11 total -- 8080 EUR
>
> The final budget numbers that you referenced are $3780 USD for F13
> and $7980 USD for F14, for a total of $11,760.
>
> Going to Google *today* and typing in "8080 EUR in USD" gives me
> $11,493, which is pretty close.
Even if the total numbers match I wonder why the numbers for the
individual releases are so different. Where are they taken from? They
are obviously not the invoices but rather based on information you get
from your billing people, right?
We don't often work with Purchase Orders for Fedora costs. Most
everything is put on credit cards, with the exception of media, because
that's a lot of money.
The way it works with the purchase orders is:
In NA, the Ambassadors figure out how much they want to produce, we get
an estimate from the vendor on how much they think that will cost, I
open a purchase order for that amount in USD, and then the vendors send
the invoices in to the finance department. Once the person who opened
the PO (in this case me) notes that the media was received, the vendor
gets paid.
The process in EMEA is similar, but we've always needed help because
someone in Munich has to open the Purchase Order in EUR for the MediaBit
supplier. This used to be Alessandra, and this most recent time Daniela
has helped us out, for which I have given her many many thanks :) On my
end, what I see is "$FOO in RH Europe opened a purchase order for 5000
EUR ($X USD) on your behalf for supplier $BAR. Do you approve?" I say
yes. I note down that amount in my personal budget tracking which ends
up on the public expenses page, and then I pretty much just assume that
all the German speaking folks take care of the details.
My question was more about where the numbers are from than if the
numbers were correct. I didn't expect you to go through all the bills
of the last years now because we all trust you. I think you have more
important things to do and we should try to help you. I hope the
Financial SIG is a good approach to share the workload and have more
transparency.
Christoph, I sincerely am glad that there are people out there like you
who actually bother to take a look at, and ask questions about, all of
the financial transparency that we do. It makes me feel like that work
is worthwhile.
--Max