fwiw http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...outreach_team/ is still missing a split between problem and solution.

I'm confident I can get budget for something like this. In an ideal world we would get one invoice, pay the funding and be done from Nokia's side. The rest would be handled by the Maemo community. However, that possibility doesn't exist and this is where the problems start.

Today one community contributor asks for a "small" (for Nokia) amount of money that (for Nokia) is complicated to pay in order to make some maemo.org promotion in an event. Then what? This action doesn't scale well.

Look the request "a budget around $20,000 that should fully pay for forty, two-day shows or eighty one-day shows". Managing all those payments to all those individuals creates an overhead of bureaucracy.

Besides, who decides who are the 40-80 right actions if we get 80-160 requests? Or concurrent requests from different individuals for a same event, with budget to cover only one. We don't really want to be in the middle of these decisions. You want us to concentrate our time in other things.

But anyway, the first step is always to get the budget. Once you have it is easier to distribute it than not having money.

Money is something serious that requires some planning. If you want a marketing budget then you need a marketing plan with a budget estimation. Say, which events do you wish to cover in this semester? How many people at which cost for travel and accommodation? What marketing materials and at which cost of production and transport? What other costs to be considered?

I wouldn't expect to get 20k from anybody without doing this homework first.