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The TL;DR is that the Foundation has significant money[0] to spend on |
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improving Gentoo. |
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Gentoo Foundation Inc. has spent over 10 years raising and holding money |
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for Gentoo. In the past, funding requests have been few and far between |
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(typically 2-3 requests per year.) We have more money than expenses in most |
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fiscal years. This means that we have significant money to spend in support |
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of the Gentoo Community and we are looking for useful ways to spend it. |
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Some may ask, why does the board not spend money itself? The answer |
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nominally lies in the Gentoo Foundation founding documents; the board is |
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not allowed to directly influence the development of Gentoo. As president |
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of the board, I mostly take this as a "requests to spend money should come |
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from the community, not from the board." This is why I am sending this |
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mail; to make a more official explicit request to spend money. |
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-A |
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[0] Specifically, we have approximately $160,000 in cash equivalents. I |
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don't expect to spend it all, but I'm trying to provide some idea to the |
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community of available capital. No idea is too big or small, etc. |
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