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Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>Does anyone know of other sources that might help with funding? |
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We've had some ideas[1], and there is a contact who is great with |
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writing grants (the type of grant that Donnie talked about) who is |
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willing to help the Foundation, he's just waiting for us to get to the |
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point of being able to accept such grants. In other words, completing |
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the 501(c) status. |
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There are governmental grants that could be applied for, as well as |
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vendor grants (IBM is pretty famous for giving grants as tax writeoffs |
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with the stipulation that the grant money be spent in a certain quarter, |
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thus helping their income in the same token). |
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As for the kind of grants that Brad mentioned, we've tossed such an idea |
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around (similarly) as well but call them "bounties". The framework for |
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such a beast would need to be carefully laid so that everything remains |
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legal and we don't end up in trouble with the IRS. With that |
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accomplished, I think bounties are a great idea if the money is there. |
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To be honest, the current Board is quite new to having money, as we've |
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only had funds on hand in the past couple of months[2] and we've been |
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around for almost a year. Nobody is jumping at the bit to spend it all, |
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but on the other hand I've heard comments that people give the money |
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with the intention for it to be spent and help Gentoo. It'll be a fine |
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balance between money that should be saved for possible legal expenses |
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and other suprises like hardware failures, and money that should go out |
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(and how much goes to whom). We have had only one request for funding |
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come in (for a hardware upgrade), and the need is going to be fulfilled |
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by hardware already within Gentoo's reach. I know that money will be |
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requested around the time of LWE as well to help with PR type stuff. |
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Anyway, I probably got off track there. In my mind, funding for Gentoo |
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is half of the job of the Foundation, and why I was so excited to see |
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the paypal link get off the ground. Once the IRS NFP filing is complete |
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it will open up the doors for things such as grants. |
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Cheers! |
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-C |
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[1] - http://www.gentoo.org/foundation/en/funds.xml |
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[2] - http://www.gentoo.org/foundation/en/2005q1.xml |
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