Re: [gentoo-dev] How to raise money for Gentoo

[Alec Warner]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> wbrana wrote:
>>>> Page www.gentoo.org asks for donations
>>>> "Donate to support our development efforts."
>>>> 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
>>> more funds to support itself?
>>
>> On a yearly basis, we take in more money than we spend. We primarily
>> spend money on fees (legal, accountant, etc) and funding requests
>> (infra hardware, requests from foundation members.)
>>
>> Its all on http://foundation.gentoo.org if you are curious. The 2011
>> report notes that we have approximately $70,000 USD in funds. Some
>> Gentoo developers want to do more conference-type events. However
>> those typically come with much higher budgets than our funds and
>> require sponsors to make happen. Without clearer goals on what to
>> spend the money on, I can't really see the need to increase our
>> advertising.
>
> Could some of the money be spent on bug bounties?

You want gentoo-nfp@, not this list. I'm trying to move the discussion
there. Go visit the foundation webpages I linked to earlier. Funding
requests are pretty easy to write...

-A

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