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Replying to list as well as sender. Hopefully sender doesn't mind, I |
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don't believe their email was personal or private in nature. |
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On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 23:22 +0200, Ewald Tienkamp wrote: |
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> William L. Thomson Jr. schreef: |
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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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> | There are likely more, hopefully others will chime in on stuff I missed. |
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> I am certain the Foundation, and more importantly Gentoo in general, |
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> would benefit from having (more) money. As you have listed, the money |
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> can be used anywhere from promoting the use of Gentoo, to increasing the |
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> amount of people who know about Gentoo, sponsor hardware and software |
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> for devs, provide support, pay legal fees, etcetera. |
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Yeah the idea is only to make things better, no worse. But always a |
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double edged sword. |
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> Yet I'd like to sidestep the discussion on what to spend the money on |
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> and focus on how the money is actually coming in. I have emailed several |
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> Gentoo addresses with my suggestion over the year(s), yet failed to |
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> receive a single response. (Maybe use some of the income to hire staff |
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> to answer incoming email? ;) ) |
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FYI, in a month or two, the meeting agenda or part of it will be |
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focusing on how the foundation can raise funds. Starting with a yearly |
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budget, and fund drive. But we will explore other more creative ways. |
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> Either way, why is there no way to donate to Gentoo on a monthly/yearly |
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> basis? |
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Can't this be done now via PayPal? Or are we not setup properly with |
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PayPal to allow people to make scheduled re-occurring donations. |
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> I, and as I suspect many people with me, would like to support |
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> Gentoo, yet can't cough up a decent donation at once. When the |
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> Foundation provides us with the ability to support Gentoo with a small |
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> recurring donation, the advantage would be twofold: |
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> - - More people will be able to or are more likely to donate since it only |
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> requires a small amount of money at a time (anywhere from 1 to 10 |
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> dollars for instance) |
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> - - The Foundation acquires a more steady flow of money, (increasingly) |
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> allowing for long(er)-term spending plans. |
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If that's not possible now, we will surely see about making it a |
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possibility before end of term. |
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> Please correct me if I'm way off on this, but since the issue of money |
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> was brought up here, I couldn't help but jump in with this suggestion |
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> I've been carrying around. |
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Please do provide ideas and feedback. That's why I started the thread. |
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Mostly for discussion, ideas, food for though, etc. |
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Although all unofficially atm. Just me as an individual voicing some |
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ideas and thoughts. The board is a few months from looking into how we |
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can generate revenue. If there is interest in that. Much less how to |
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spend it once we do have funds and flow :) |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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