Re: Unable to attend the meeting today; my take on the budget

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 04:14:03PM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Regarding the budget: For me, fF/hDI scenario sounds best, but frankly
> speaking I'm not happy with it either. It's not that I don't like the
> scenario, but the overall process. It's hard to vote on abstract
> scenarios without knowing what they actually mean for the people. We
> want to support some outreachy stuff, but do we actually have ideas
> how to spend 5k? What events do we attend? Who will attend these
> events?

This actually is a specific line item. One Outreachy intern costs 5k.

> Ultimately, we want Fedora to be a flat hierarchy. Decisions-making
> should happen bottom-up and on the lowest possible level. Scenarios on
> the other hand seem very top-down.

I want people doing work to be empowered, yes. However, we also need
spending to be focused on best impact, and it's hard to do that without
bringing the low-level decision-making together — which somewhat
inevitably makes it higher-level.

> FAmSCo has been working hard to delegate as much responsibility down
> to the regions. This process has been working well and inspired people
> to participate. Therefor I suggest we first look at what they request,
> make some adjustments and once we know how much we need for regional
> support, we know how much is left for FADs and Outreachy.

I agree that for the regional activities, we want responsibility at the
regional level. That's why I'd like to move the regional planning FAD
line items — and possibly FUDCons as well — to the regional budgets.
But your suggestion seems to have the basic assumption that regional
support is the most important spending. I don't think that's
necessarily true. There are things we can do globally or centrally
which are also worth funding and should't necessarily be determined by
where contributors happen to live.

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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader
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