#43: Create the Fedora Public Budget Page
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Reporter: decause | Owner: decause
Status: new | Priority: normal
Component: General | Resolution:
Keywords: budget, websites, FCL, |
transparency, community |
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Comment (by cwickert):
Thanks for taking the lead on this. The lack of transparency wrt. the
budget has been a problem for years. After Max left, nobody took over and
with the shift from CommArch to OSAS, things got worse. Thus the last
numbers we have in the wiki are from FY 2012 and 2013.
Replying to [ticket:43 decause]:
establishing a new page (wiki or otherwise) that will track the
timeline
and particulars of the Fedora Public Budget. It shall include:
Budgetary Components, Projected and Adjusted for each fiscal year:
- Regional Budget Allocations (APAC/EMEA/LATAM/NA)
- Fedora Premier Event Budgets (FLOCK, FUDCons)
- Central Discretionary Fund (approved by Council)
- FAD specific Budgets
I agree. Please note that currently FADs are considered premiere events
just like FLOCK and FUDCons. A
[
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Premier_Fedora_Events premiere event] is
whatever is mainly about Fedora vs. an event we simply attend.
Budgetary Milestones and Timelines:
- August: In person meeting at FLOCK
While meeting people in person always is a good idea, I wonder what the
exact purpose of this meeting would be.
It's definitely not a good idea for creating the actual budget. Compiling
a list of events not only requires a lot of people (we usually have 10 -
15 at the EMEA budgeting FAD), but also a lot of time. This means we
would fly a lot of people to FLOCK who then hardly have time to do
anything but the budget.
- September: Proposed budget components and metrics from each region
What kind of metrics do you have in mind?
- October: Ratification of Proposed Budget by Council
- March: Confirmation of Received budget w/ Adjustment Meeting
- Quarterly Check-ins with Regional Treasurers
- Halfly approvals of Regional Funds, pending metrics and outcomes
reporting
While the first two points are pretty clear, I wonder what the last two
are supposed to be. In particular:
* How would the check-ins work? How can we make sure we actually have
regional treasurers? Hint: The more freedom and responsibility they get,
the more people are willing to do this job.
* What exactly needs to be approved and when? We currently have a very
fine-grained approval process that takes into account the regional
differences. A lot of experiaince and work has been put into it, so I
suggest to not change the approval process until we are sure we have
something that works better.
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