* on the Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 08:28:55AM -0500, inode0 was commenting:
| On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Neville A. Cross <neville(a)taygon.com> wrote:
| > I think that is the big problem, we need to get together and we haven't
| > do so.
| >
| > Wiki can be really difficult for finding a specific page, I would love
| > to have links to the pages where we should keep logs, and pages that we
| > should look at to get the broad picture of the budget. In any case wiki
| > pages will not substitute getting the key people to talk about this.
| >
| > Probably we should reconsider Max's idea of financial SIG ?
|
| This is exactly what I was thinking too. If we could meet even once a
| month, fairly soon after the payment cycle so we had a generally
| accurate picture of things going into a new month this would go a long
| way toward increasing my comfort level.
|
| Other record keeping is also a good idea but wiki pages always end up
| getting out of date at some point.
As the person who has to manage the budget from the Red Hat side and
having taken over the role since about August, I must admit that I
was very conservative and perhaps slow in getting things done. I needed
to reach a level of comfort for ultimately, I'm answerable to the spending.
I think if an agenda item can be placed in the FAmSCo meetings to
discuss finance - as suggested above and on a monthly basis - it will
be useful and I will attend them.
Thanks.
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