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

[Michael Mol]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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...

kk. I'll stop adding noise to this list on this topic. :)

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