#58: Regional allocation for FY17 budget
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Reporter: mattdm | Owner:
Status: new | Priority: major
Component: General | Resolution:
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Comment (by tatica):
Replying to [comment:5 cwickert]:
I have some concerns about LATAM, they get less than they spent last
year and due
to bad tracking, this is already a subset of what they
actually spent.
Lets please remember that LATAM member not always have an easy way to get
reimbursements, and reimbursements usually take quite long.
That is true; LATAM definitely came out the lowest here by any
measure.
That's largely because their ''request'' was
significantly lower than that
from the other regions, which doesn't really seem like a good reason to
penalize. Do you have a concrete alternate proposal?
LATAM region has always been the last on budget; we have learn to make
smaller budgets more adjusted to reality, yet, when larger Regions ask for
more, they ended up taking it from the LATAM budget. Our budget keeps
getting smaller and smaller, despite part of those funds aren't granted
due the difficulty of transfer the funds to our Fedora members, more than
just a '''I don't want to use it'''.
Just imagine next year budget, when we end up using only 80% of our budget
will look like just because we aren't '''the bigger
spenders'''?
Our main event is FUDcon, which take a lot of money since travel airfares
are quite more expensive in our region than in any other else. Would there
be a way to increase (at least) only the FUDcon budget? We usually take
part of our Regional budget to cover FUDcon, and if each year the cuts
keep coming, to me, it seems that budget for LATAM is meant to disappear
in order to provide more budget to everyone else.
Don't get me wrong, I understand that everyone is getting cuts, yet, seems
that LATAM is getting always the worst.
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