Hi fellow Ambassadors.
At yesterday's EMEA meeting, we talked about the FAMSCo budget:
<spevack>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_budget
<spevack> If folks look at the FAMSCo budget page with proposals for
the current quarter (March - May)
<spevack> It seems like the two most pressing needs are planning for
F13 media, and making sure the French team gets the resources that it
needs.
Pierros (I hope I'm not wrong, Pierros is Liknus on IRC, right?)
raised some valid concerns about the French team asking for a lot of
money:
<liknus> ok spevack, but i think that fr is taking too much (even for
a big country) (sorry bochecha )
<bochecha> liknus, keep one thing in mind, that's for the whole year,
not the quarter
<spevack> liknus: well, they've stated a *yearly* need in that number,
not a quarterly one
<spevack> Perhaps we given them a chunk of that this quarter, and more
next quarter. I think that yearly estimate is very fair, in my
opinion.
<bochecha> liknus, you might think it's still to much, but I just
wanted to make sure this was clear :)
<liknus> even for that, but thats just me whining...
So I was asked if we could detail how we are planning to spend the
money in 2010.
Well, Thomas Canniot (our ever-awesome treasurer) and I (the guy who
won't be long to make stupid jokes about French clichés) worked hard
on it tonight, and we are proud to present to you the Fedora-Fr annual
reports:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Fr_annual_report_2009
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Fr_annual_report_2010
Each page details (or will) our planned budget at the beginning of the
fiscal year, and our effective budget and activity report at the end
of it.
Hopefully, this will both help clear the concerns people might have,
as well as help Max better estimate how much money we really deserve
(which could very well be much less than what we are asking).
If you still have any doubt, do not hesitate to ask here or on IRC,
we'll make it a duty to answer all questions. After all, where there's
money involved, tensions might arise, and we all want to stay close to
the Fedora Project's second Foundation (that would be « Friends » for
those of you weren't paying attention :)
Best regards,
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Mathieu Bridon
PS : For those of you who would like to know more about what it is we
do (apart from drinking wine and walking around with a baguette and a
beret), we also used the occasion to create a new « French_team »
category that will hold all of our activities in the future:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:French_team
It's currently pretty empty, but we'll make sure to retroactively add
all the pages that we disseminated through the wiki for all these
years.