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On 5/24/08, Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote: |
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> William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> > For more of a fun thread. I am just going to list a bunch of ideas I |
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> > personally have had wrt to what Gentoo could do with money. They are not |
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> > listed in any particular order. |
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> > 1. Provide all devs with a base development system |
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> Oh cool, wait no. There is a direct adopt-a-dev stuff people could think |
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> more personal and fun. |
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> > 2. Sponsors devs to travel to events, seminars, summits, etc |
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> > 3. Sponsors devs for educational purposes, certifications, college, |
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> > trade courses, etc |
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> > 4. Hold an annual Gentoo Conference for all developers and users |
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> > 5. Pay for infra services |
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> > 6. Buy bitchen hardware and toys for infra |
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> > 8. Increase schwag and freebie stuff to give away at events |
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> > 9. Sponsors development via Gentoo summer of code, or fall, |
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> > winter, or spring summer of code. |
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> meh, non core stuff sponsors usually provide. |
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> > 7. Buy new hardware to install/certify Gentoo on ( PS 4, new procs, |
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> > big iron, etc) |
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> Usually certification happens from the other side... |
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> > 10. Donate/contribute to other projects and charities |
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> We donate already patches, space and so on. |
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> > 11. Purchase membership for Gentoo in other foundations ( Gentoo |
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> > being a member of Gnome foundation, or etc ) |
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> Depressing. |
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> > 12. Provide hardware to devs working on certain areas, device |
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> > drivers etc ( like buying a bunch of video cards for those |
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> > supporting binary drivers, or odd/expensive hardware ) |
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> Usually hw is provided by the people making it for that purpose. |
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> > 13. Buy licenses to commercial apps so we can package and make |
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> > ebuilds available for them. |
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> AHAHAHA no, the commercial app corp could provide us with a license if they |
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> want us to package their stuff. |
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> > 14. Provide FREE release media |
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> Why? |
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> > 15. Marketing and promotional materials ( flyers to hand out at |
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> > events, banners, booth displays, etc ) |
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> The best advertising is the word passing from happy users to other people |
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> willing to try it. |
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> lu |
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So you seemed quick to throw out a lot of those ideas...Assuming we |
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had money what would you spend it on; or are you just against the |
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premise of us having money at all? |
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> Luca Barbato |
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> Gentoo Council Member |
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