pnemade added a new comment to an issue you are following: `` IMHO this is a huge budget request that came at the start of this financial year. So, we should try not to accept this request at least fully (maybe partially that needs discussion in the meeting along with APAC ambassadors).
This ticket also brought few questions/things in my mind.
1) Have APAC ambassadors had the budget planning for this year? How much budget APAC region have got to spend this whole year? 2) Do APAC region reserve some fund for different activities for given budget like some fund for swags, some for local events, some for travel within APAC region and then outside APAC region budget. 3) I would not mind if the requested budget will be used for organizing any large event anywhere in APAC rather to spend on single person to travel outside of APAC that to non Fedora related conference. The budget request is actually for conference talk along with some addon riders.
4) Year on Year APAC region is getting less budget to spend due to only few events getting organized in APAC. We should first try to create more communities that contributes to Fedora project.
5) The OSCAL'18 event looks nice but I don't think that someone need to fly from other region using Fedora APAC Ambassadors budget to talk on that topic. As I see other D&I team already present in the event they can discuss these (proposed talk) things with local community very well. (Maybe in their local language as well :) )
6) Also, looking at last year budget, it appears that Diversity and Inclusion got almost thrice budget than to APAC regional budget. So this request is more ideal to be fully approved by Diversity project.
7) [That Diversity ticket](https://pagure.io/fedora-diversity/issue/48) shows Diversity team already met in DevConf.CZ but could not discuss goals. Its fourth month of this year now. I do not understand why Diversity team is waiting to meet face to face to decide yearly goals. Why not setup a video meetup to discuss goals?
I am not related to Diversity project but whenever I get time I try to read about their activities. Apologies if I am wrong in understanding the Diversity project work. ``
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