On 13 November 2014 21:44, Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Not sure how much of this still is relevant but...
Not directly, but thank you for your input!
For FUDCon Pune, most of this was the actual budgeting was handled
by Amit
Shah who put up a publicly viewable spreadsheet in Google docs. We met
pretty regularly and were very meticulous about adding all the details we
could and that level of transparency was much appreciated by people funding
it. Community arch team also had a wiki page with the overall budget and
what we were spending it in on.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Architecture_expenses
I only pooled in different sources for the overall budget: The sources I
begged^w asked were Community architecture team which has been superseded by
Open Source and Standards Group (OSAS) in Red Hat, FamSCo which has been
recently superseded by the Outreach Committee, my manager, FPL and GSS.
From an overall budgeting perspective, as a general tip, budgeting in
Fedora sorta works like government allocation. You have different sources
(not all of them visible) and they sometimes overlap. It doesn't hurt to
ask wherever you can.
APAC generally received less because we weren't utilizing it enough and when
we really needed it for major events we didn't get it. This problem was
compounded by several people showing up only for events when funded but
without leaving much of a visible impact or any active contributions. So if
we consistently utilize all of the budget allotted (in a useful way!), that
is probably going to work out better. That would involve planning it out
This is the overall impression I had too and the meetings so far have
confirmed it.
ahead of time for atleast two quarters. I was aware of this problem
but
disliked sitting through IRC meetings to coordinate it. If you are up for
that, it could be done.
Yeah, we made an event list to coordinate something like this.
Hopefully this will make things better.
Siddhesh
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