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On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 18:23 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 18:07 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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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. These would, of course, need limits placed on |
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> > them, and proper accounting would be needed at the end of the year. |
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> > Something like... "You had a $x budget, and spent $y. What did you |
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> > spend it on?" kind of thing. This allows for fast purchases (new power |
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> > supply, anyone?) without going through the red tape required to get |
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> > funds. It also gives the PR group the ability to have money to spend on |
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> > promoting Gentoo. I'd love to be able to build some kind of "Press Kit" |
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> > with nice, full-color documentation about Gentoo as well as our latest |
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> > release media and other goodies to send out to both our partners and the |
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> > press. It definitely wouldn't hurt to have money for trade shows, too, |
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> > but that might be a bit harder to come by, depending on the income we |
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> > end up getting. |
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> I don't suppose there's any historical record to base something on? |
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> Like, 2 years ago we spent $x on hardware and $y on PR, last year you |
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> spent $x+10 and $y+3 (i suck at this algebra stuff) - ie, something to |
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> use as a cushion allowance to say we'll allocate Z% for each of these, |
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> which doesn't mean they can't ask for more if they need it, but that |
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> that much is at least guaranteed available? (s'ok to say i'm naive, i'm |
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> new at doing this at the nfp level, too used to just asking for the |
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> money at work) |
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That's easy. PR has gotten $0. |
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What I consider for infrastructure is something fairly small, but enough |
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to cover incidentals, like power supplies, RAM, CPUs, hard drives. |
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Basically, a "quick cash" to buy parts when something breaks. If they |
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want new stuff, they fill out the normal request. I don't know how much |
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they've spent in the past, but I know it isn't much, at all. |
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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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