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On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 20:01 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> For more of a fun thread. I am just going to list a bunch of ideas I |
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> personally have had wrt to what Gentoo could do with money. They are not |
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> listed in any particular order. |
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> 1. Provide all devs with a base development system |
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> 2. Sponsors devs to travel to events, seminars, summits, etc |
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> 3. Sponsors devs for educational purposes, certifications, college, |
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> trade courses, etc |
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> 4. Hold an annual Gentoo Conference for all developers and users |
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> 5. Pay for infra services |
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I'm glad you are not the treasurer. |
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> 6. Buy bitchen hardware and toys for infra |
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> 7. Buy new hardware to install/certify Gentoo on ( PS 4, new procs, |
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> big iron, etc) |
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> 8. Increase schwag and freebie stuff to give away at events |
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This does not actually make the distro any better. |
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> 9. Sponsors development via Gentoo summer of code, or fall, winter, |
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> or spring summer of code |
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> 10. Donate/contribute to other projects and charities |
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> 11. Purchase membership for Gentoo in other foundations ( Gentoo |
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> being a member of Gnome foundation, or etc ) |
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> 12. Provide hardware to devs working on certain areas, device |
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> drivers etc ( like buying a bunch of video cards for those |
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> supporting binary drivers, or odd/expensive hardware ) |
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This is a tricky area. Many rules of eligibly would have to be setup |
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and may cause internal conflicts/jealousy among devs getting all |
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the pretty/cool toys. |
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> 13. Buy licenses to commercial apps so we can package and make |
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> ebuilds available for them. |
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I would be strongly opposed to #13 |
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> 14. Provide FREE release media |
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We already do this. |
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> 15. Marketing and promotional materials ( flyers to hand out at |
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> events, banners, booth displays, etc ) |
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Tree hater.. |
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> There are likely more, hopefully others will chime in on stuff I missed. |
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You seem to want to run the foundation like a business. Please stop |
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that. You are crossing the line where Gentoo should have something like |
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it's own Corp vs Foundation worrying about money. |
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