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