1 |
Kurt Lieber wrote: [Sat May 22 2004, 06:09:15AM EDT] |
2 |
> All -- |
3 |
> |
4 |
> We haven't yet discussed how we're going to spend money (or decide how to |
5 |
> spend money) but below is a message from Robin that I think clearly |
6 |
> justifies spending some money on lark. It might be a good catalyst to get |
7 |
> us to figure out what our budgeting and expenditure approval process is |
8 |
> going to be. It can be as simple as someone (like me) posting an email |
9 |
> (like this) to this list or it can be somethimg more complex. |
10 |
> |
11 |
> Ideas? |
12 |
|
13 |
I'm not opposed to writing proposals and having a tiered voting system |
14 |
(although we shouldn't set the specific monetary levels of the tiers in |
15 |
stone, since both inflation and, hopefully, our income is likely to rise), |
16 |
but it seems to me that for trustees to vote responsibly we need to be |
17 |
better informed about Gentoo's finances. On average, how much money is |
18 |
donated to the project each month? (As a complete non-sequitar, should |
19 |
we have a page on www.g.o that gratefully acknowledges our donors the |
20 |
same way that public-supported arts programs do?) Similarly, on average |
21 |
how much money is spent by Gentoo each month, and on what? How much |
22 |
money does each area of Gentoo _need_ to spend, and how much would it |
23 |
_like_ to spend, and for what purposes? |
24 |
|
25 |
I suspect that right now the majority of money spent by Gentoo is on |
26 |
infra stuff. I would be very much in favor of giving infra a yearly sum |
27 |
of money (or, more practically, a fraction of our income) that they can |
28 |
spend as they see fit, requiring a yearly expense report and review, instead |
29 |
of having the trustees needing to vote on every single expense. |
30 |
|
31 |
Best, |
32 |
g2boojum |
33 |
|
34 |
PS. Sorry for being out of touch. I just returned from a conference at |
35 |
Ole Miss, and it seems that Oxford, MS is both a wireless and a Sprint |
36 |
PCS wasteland. Sheesh! |
37 |
-- |
38 |
Grant Goodyear |
39 |
Gentoo Developer |
40 |
g2boojum@g.o |
41 |
http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
42 |
GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 |