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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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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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7. Buy new hardware to install/certify Gentoo on ( PS 4, new procs, |
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big iron, etc) |
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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, winter, |
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or spring summer of code |
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10. Donate/contribute to other projects and charities |
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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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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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13. Buy licenses to commercial apps so we can package and make |
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ebuilds available for them. |
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14. Provide FREE release media |
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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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There are likely more, hopefully others will chime in on stuff I missed. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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amd64/Java/Trustees |
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Gentoo Foundation |