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On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 10:46 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> Chris Gianelloni wrote: [Thu Oct 26 2006, 05:07:10PM CDT] |
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> > I'd still like to see some form of budgets for both PR/Events and Infra, |
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> > to allow them to have operating expenses available without needing to |
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> > submit a funding request. |
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> Works for me. I've tried multiple times to get infra to give me a rough |
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> estimate of how much money to set aside for them, and I've failed to get |
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> any number at all. Somebody else want to try? |
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OK. How about $1000, then? If they want something different, they can |
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come up with some reasoning. |
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Now, we'd have to come up with a set of guidelines on what this money |
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should cover, what still requires trustee authorization, and how they |
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should report their expenditures. I'd prefer this be done in some form |
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of meeting, so we can just post the log afterwards. |
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This would be my short list for guidelines: |
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- Replacement parts (Hard drives, CPUs, RAM, Power Supply, etc) |
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- Minor upgrades to existing servers (RAID Controllers, etc) |
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- Shipping |
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That's about all I can think of for Infra. Really, everything else can |
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likely wait for trustee approval. The reporting should be simple. What |
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was the money spent on, for what purpose, and the exact amounts spent. |
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We would likely also need to require receipts for these purchases, for |
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tax purposes. |
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> Chris, can you provide an estimate for PR? |
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Well, it depends on the scope that we're wanting to allow. |
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If we're talking something like having some bulk CDs made up after each |
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release for giving out/selling at trade shows and nothing more, then I |
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can come up with a number pretty easily. If we're talking about having |
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professional-quality press kits to send to our partners, sponsors, and |
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selected media people, then I'd definitely have to look into it much |
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more. |
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I would love for us to have the ability to do both. |
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We would also need to identify which shows we consider "important" for |
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showcasing Gentoo. As much as I hate to say this, we'd likely simplify |
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it to exposure. The more attendees the show has, the more support it |
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gets from PR. |
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Shows like Linux World San Francisco, Linux World Germany, Linux World |
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UK, FOSDEM, FOSS.in, and LinuxTag all have a high turnout. I know that |
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we have a booth at Linux World San Francisco and FOSDEM each year, as I |
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go to both of these. We have had a booth at FOSS.in, Linux World |
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Germany, and LinuxTag in the past. I don't know about Linux World UK. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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