Gentoo Archives: gentoo-trustees

From: Joshua Brindle <method@g.o>
To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-trustees] using the stable gentoo tree as a source of revenue
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 23:29:40
Message-Id: 411808E7.5090708@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-trustees] using the stable gentoo tree as a source of revenue by Corey Shields
1 Corey Shields wrote:
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3 >On Monday 09 August 2004 09:35 am, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>Lastly, is -trustees really the place to be discussing this?
7 >>
8 >>
9 >
10 >It was brought up as a means of providing revenue for the Foundation, so I'd
11 >say yes to that.. I think that LWE opened our eyes to the fact that we need
12 >-some- money to try and push Gentoo more..
13 >
14 >Cheers!
15 >
16 >-C
17 >
18 >
19 >
20 Why not hold off and see what kind of donations we get once we have the
21 nfp established and then talk about auxillary funds after that?
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23 aside from that, I agree with Sven's hesitations on this matter, and
24 thirdly do we really have the infrastructure/developers to provide a
25 service that people pay for (and in turn expect a quality service with
26 no downtime and fast turn around), and if so why aren't we already doing it?
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28 Joshua Brindle
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