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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 |
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they 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 |
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people willing to try it. |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo Council Member |
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Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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