Re: [gentoo-nfp] Re: shipping material to the UK

[Grant Goodyear]

Corey Shields wrote: [Wed Sep 21 2005, 11:13:16AM CDT]
> In my mind, PR should be second
> on our priority list next to infra.. but that might be just me.  :)

I'll agree with that statement.  I deliberately shot low for pr just
because I didn't know what we were actually spending.

> The question then is where does the PR budget land?  I would like to
> see the Foundation handle most of the PR and promotion of Gentoo,
> since it just seems easier to keep it close to the source.  Again,
> this is just a personal idea/opinion.

I'm not opposed, but presumbably we should check w/ the existing PR team
to see if they have an opinion.  Anybody know who's in charge of PR
these days, if anybody?

> As for infra, $1.5k is good for covering operations and incidentals, but
> should not be expected to include any servers that need to be purchased
> (because it obviously isn't enough).  Such items should be proposed
> seperately for now.  But the $1.5k should be enough of a buffer to cover
> things like disk failures and to get Lance a leash^H^H^H pager.

Yeah, I was really proposing a budget for replacement parts, not
replacement machines.  I figured those would go through the usual
funds-request process.

> So if we went $1.5k for PR and $1.5k for Infra, making $3k for the year, we
> should be just fine financially.  We are averaging $4k a quarter with the
> prospect of another $1.5k/quarter revenue just around the corner.

I assume that there's been some falloff since we started collecting
funds.  Does the monthly/quarterly income seem to have stabilized? 

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