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On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 20:56 -0700, Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> I'm glad you are not the treasurer. |
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FYI, allot of these ideas wrt to spending other peoples money given to |
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the foundation. I doubt would even be made by the board alone, much less |
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just the treasurer. These types of funding items would likely be voted |
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on before added to any budget. |
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I have little interest in acting on such things alone, which includes |
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just the board doing what they feel is best. I am all for democracy and |
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giving other people the chance to chime in like now ;) |
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> > 8. Increase schwag and freebie stuff to give away at events |
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> This does not actually make the distro any better. |
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True, but makes recipients happy :) It makes things fun. Like for |
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example, those little sticky throw things that OpenNMS gives out. No |
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point, just fun :) No one even pays attention to the logo. But they are |
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fun to throw at people, in the office etc. |
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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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> This is a tricky area. Many rules of eligibly would have to be setup |
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> and may cause internal conflicts/jealousy among devs getting all |
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> the pretty/cool toys. |
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Agreed, and that hardware would be Gentoo owned. There would have to be |
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some agreement that they actually use it for development etc. Not just |
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hoard it to play games, etc. |
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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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> I would be strongly opposed to #13 |
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I am not a huge fan of that one. Just an idea. After all we might be |
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able to leverage future licenses for free. If many of their users start |
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running their product/application on Gentoo. So that might encourage |
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greater use of Gentoo for deploying commercial apps. |
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Granted it could expose those apps to a whole can of worms. I think that |
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might daunt some companies. Which if we were paying customers. They |
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might be more open to patches, improvements, etc. Double edged sword. |
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Again I am not looking to totally go crazy with other peoples money. |
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Which any foundation funds obviously are. |
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> > 14. Provide FREE release media |
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> We already do this. |
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No in physical form. We distribute it in electronic form. I am saying |
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what if we could have a budget to send out X amount of cds for free each |
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year. Person just pays shipping, and orders are limited to 1-5 or |
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something. That way people can't go crazy. |
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Branded media on cd's with covers etc. That look semi professional. Why |
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have such a killer distro, distributed on burned cds? Works to hand to |
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your buddy/colleague/relative/etc, but professionally? Would you take a |
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burned cd to your boss/employer/random stranger and say here, run |
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this. :) |
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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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> Tree hater.. |
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No arms, no reach around, so screw the trees. Who says we use paper? |
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Let's use plastic, which comes from oil. Much better idea. ;) |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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amd64/Java/Trustees |
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Gentoo Foundation |