#43: Create the Fedora Public Budget Page
-------------------------------------------------+-------------------------
Reporter: decause | Owner: decause
Status: new | Priority: normal
Component: General | Resolution:
Keywords: budget, websites, FCL, |
transparency, community |
-------------------------------------------------+-------------------------
Comment (by decause):
Replying to [comment:2 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 is my understanding that this would be an Open discussion at FLOCK to
allow folks in the project to discuss "high-level" budget priorities for
the upcoming year, informed by Adjusted reports and metrics from the
previous year.
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?
Transferred from this council-discuss thread:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/council-
discuss/2015-November/013845.html
---Snip---
As laid out, event reporters are not (necessarily) doing the analysis,
only the reporting. This type of reporting is mostly about reporting raw
numbers and gathering links.
--Snipped From Wiki--
- Attendees contacted or reached
- Fedora Badges issued at or as a result of the event
- Pull requests and patches submitted as a result of event
- Bugs reported
- Candidates sourced (i.e. Outreachy, GSoC, and/or other FOSS
programs)
- Articles/Videos/Photos/Content published by or about regional team
- Social media mentions and interactions generated by event
- Other supporting evidence data that shows the results of your effort
- Links to and reach of Posts on Fedora Channels
--Snipped From Wiki--
Most of these elements can be tracked by:
- Keeping a Sign-in sheet at the event
- Having a QR code for badge awarding
- Using tags such as "python3 VFAD" to associate with an event with a
PR/Bugzilla Report
- Candidate sourced would join the Outreachy or Summer-Coding mail
list, and should include which event they started at in their introduction
email.
- Articles/Content/Videos may be harder to find, but we want them for
more than just reimbursement, we want to promote awesome Fedora things. By
using a hashtag for an event, we should be able to aggregate some of that
stuff from social media.
- Anec-data and other personal accounts can be included as a blurb
when sending the report.
CommOps and Fedora Social Media Manager (via OSAS) can help promote
these, and get metrics too.
As far as analysis, we need to start with data and metrics, which don't
necessarily need to be number-crunched by the ambassadors.
> > - 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?
As far as I can tell, Check-ins would basically require Treasurers to
openly communicate with the FCL and Council roughly 2 weeks before the
quarterly deadline. This can be done via IRC, or other sync/asynchronous
channels of communication, so long as their budgets can be updated and
posted to the forthcoming
https://budget.fedoraproject.org site, and the
regional storyteller's event reports are syndicated to the appropriate
Fedora Channels.
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.
For starters, Regions without delegates will have a /difficult/ time
getting allocated budget. That isn't our intention of requiring delegates,
we want to have dedicated folks to help ensure the process is followed,
rather than having it be nebulous. Second, we have proposed that delegates
receive special recognition (in the form of Fedora Badges) as well as
possible travel funding/support to their Regional Fedora Premier Event.
* 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.
It is our intention to do just that, and keep the regional policies that
FAMSCo worked hard to put in place in tact. The approval process for
anything below $2K will remain a regional decision, and the only change
for approvals of expenditures above $2K will be that they are now approved
by the Council, rather than FAMSCo.
--
Ticket URL: <
https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/43#comment:3>
council <
https://fedorahosted.org/council>
Fedora Council Public Tickets