Improving Budget System

[asdofindia (Akshay)]

This topic was created because the previous topic was too much for people to go through.

A summary of the questions and answers provided

Why are the budget bugs not open?

Feedback regarding the reps program in India

Budget bugs not being open: This is a legal requirement (not to be public) but they are open to the contributors that need to have access for audit: The requester, the review team, the council and mozilla staff.

Can Mozillians start asking for budget/swag directly without having to go through someone else?

What Honours Should Be Denied to Mozillians? (Compared to Reps)

About budget and swag, with the new community portal and its ability to visualize groups activity, we intend to improve the proccess so also non-Reps can initiate a request (note that until we launch the portal we won’t be able to start working on the details).

What are the questions that are still open?

Leaving this empty because rhetorical questions are being considered as literal questions by the people who are responding. Converting most of the questions into problems because the questions are actually about problems.

What are the problems that we want to solve?

The problem we want to solve is figuring out the most efficient way of distributing whatever budget exists for community mobilization.

Further problems will be addressed in the next post about accountability.

[mkohler (Michael Kohler)]

The problem we want to solve is figuring out the most efficient way of distributing whatever budget exists for community mobilization.

Thanks for splitting this out. Would you mind rephrasing this into a problem statement, rather than assuming that “the most efficient way of distributing whatever budget exists for community mobilization” is the solution for everything (which IMHO is way too broad - even when considered a solution)? What are the underlying problems? Then we can discuss these problems in relation, or separately, depending on how interconnected those are.

Thanks!

[asdofindia (Akshay)]

Do you think there is any problem in the budget distribution? It is a community wiki. Feel free to take a stab at improving the problem statement.

[asdofindia (Akshay)]

To be honest, I really don’t know much about the budget system. (I’ve never had access to file a budget bug). My points about budgets are all about transparency and accountability and not related to budget.

I created this topic because Nuke asked to. If you feel like it’s useful, feel free to use it.