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On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> wbrana wrote: |
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>>> Page www.gentoo.org asks for donations |
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>>> "Donate to support our development efforts." |
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>>> Gentoo could get more money if all *.gentoo.org would contain advertisements. |
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>> My questions are this: Does Gentoo need more money? Is it in need of |
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>> more funds to support itself? |
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> On a yearly basis, we take in more money than we spend. We primarily |
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> spend money on fees (legal, accountant, etc) and funding requests |
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> (infra hardware, requests from foundation members.) |
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> Its all on http://foundation.gentoo.org if you are curious. The 2011 |
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> report notes that we have approximately $70,000 USD in funds. Some |
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> Gentoo developers want to do more conference-type events. However |
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> those typically come with much higher budgets than our funds and |
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> require sponsors to make happen. Without clearer goals on what to |
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> spend the money on, I can't really see the need to increase our |
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> advertising. |
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Could some of the money be spent on bug bounties? |
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[snip] |
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:wq |
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