[gentoo-nfp] [[e-mail]: Re: Request for funds]

[Grant Goodyear]

We recently had a dev request funds to attend a conference.  The details
aren't particularly important, but I'm attaching my response and sending
this message to -nfp for further comment.  Many trustees have already
responded in private, and I'm hoping that they'll forward their replies
to this list as well.

We need to have a real discussion about how we should spend our money,
and my opinion is that such discussions should include all of the
foundation, not just the trustees.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
g2boojum

----- Forwarded message from Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o> -----

From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:56:01 -0500
Cc: trustees@g.o, java@g.o
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i
Subject: Re: Request for funds


Although I would love for the Foundation to be able to subsidize devs
attending meetings, my personal view is that we don't have the funds for
it.  Or, to be more specific, we don't have the funds to agree to all
such proposals, or even a good method for determining which meetings are
"more worthy" than others.

As much as I would love to argue that Gentoo should send me to PyCon in
February, I think it's a bad idea.  (Fortunately, the next PyCon is only
four hours away, so I think I can manage getting my work to pay for it.)
The reason is that we're always going to have more devs who want to go
places than money to pay for it, so I think it's just a bad habit to get
into.

Of course, the other 12 trustees are welcome to disagree with me!

-g2boojum-
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Grant Goodyear	
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