Moving back onto the list after some private discussion.
From my point of view, I am not sure how much of this can be easily
solved by throwing money at the problem, unless hiring tech writers is
something the project as a whole considers a valid use of our money.
(I am, entirely unconvinced
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:15:02PM +, Mark Brown wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:58:02PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
Use of debian seems to be limited because it isn't on any approved
lists and charties can't get funding for an independent evaluation at
the moment. Would you support using
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 02:28:21AM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:15:02PM +, Mark Brown wrote:
This is also an issue in some other industries for things like the PCI
DSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_DSS), FWIW.
Taken with a grain of salt, but I can't
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:43:06PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote:
Do you have any further ideas yourself on where we should spend our
money?
How about paying grants to other charities to evaluate debian, to
adapt it to meet their needs and deploy it, or to hold
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:58:02PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
Use of debian seems to be limited because it isn't on any approved
lists and charties can't get funding for an independent evaluation at
the moment. Would you support using donations to fund one or both of
those?
This is also an issue
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote:
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:43:06PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
paying grants to other charities to evaluate debian,
What does this mean? Paying someone to evaluate debian? I don't get
this ...
As I understand it, charities currently pick their operating
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:58:02PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
As I understand it, charities currently pick their operating system
by either doing an independent evaluation (an old guide of that sort
of style from when I last worked for a non-profit is at
http://www.volresource.org.uk/swit/select.htm
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:43:06PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote:
Do you have any further ideas yourself on where we should spend our
money?
How about
I don't get much of the actual payment you are proposing to do, let's
see.
paying grants to other charities
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:50:52AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
Other potential usages of Debian moneys are bounties, to which I'm not
opposed in principle. However, they should obey to very specific
rules. The first one is that no one already contributing to Debian
should be authorized to
Neil McGovern ne...@debian.org writes:
Except I'm not sure this would be legal under non-profit law, unless
you're very careful. There's an issue that funds can't be used to pay
someone the equivilent of a 'wage' in this way.
US non-profits can hire employees, but I believe there are conflict
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:24:29PM +, Joseph Nahmias wrote:
Hello Steve, Luk, and Zak!
Argh, Zack, with 'c' and 'k' :-) SCNR
Having just particpated in the latest SPI board meeting, I've
learned that The Debian Project currently has over 125k USD in
reserve. This amount (even setting
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:59:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
3 - Should these decisions be made by the DPL acting alone, or
should that be left to the project membership deciding
collectively?
I believe the decision should remain, as the default, a DPL priority
Joseph Nahmias wrote:
Hello Steve, Luk, and Zack!
Hi Joseph
Having just particpated in the latest SPI board meeting, I've learned
that The Debian Project currently has over 125k USD in reserve. This
amount (even setting aside the recent 30k debconf9 sponsorship by HP)
seems to be at a
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Wed, Mar 18 2009, Joseph Nahmias wrote:
1 - What is an appropriate reserve level for the project?
2 - How should funds above that level be allocated?
3 - Should these decisions be made by the DPL acting alone, or
should that be left to
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:24:29PM +, Joseph Nahmias wrote:
2 - How should funds above that level be allocated?
Other potential usages of Debian moneys are bounties, to which I'm not
opposed in principle. However, they should obey to very specific
rules.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 01:26:08PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
I don't think bounties are the answer. I agree however that money
could possibly be spent on tasks where we find no volunteer for.
Which is my precise position (look at the two conditions I've posed)
... or else I'm not getting the
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:24:29PM +, Joseph Nahmias wrote:
Hello Steve, Luk, and Zak!
Hi Joseph!
Having just particpated in the latest SPI board meeting, I've learned
that The Debian Project currently has over 125k USD in reserve. This
amount (even setting aside the recent 30k debconf9
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:59:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
3 - Should these decisions be made by the DPL acting alone, or
should that be left to the project membership deciding
collectively?
Hi Manoj,
For many of the expenses, I'm happy to leave it up to the
On Wed, Mar 18 2009, Joseph Nahmias wrote:
1 - What is an appropriate reserve level for the project?
2 - How should funds above that level be allocated?
3 - Should these decisions be made by the DPL acting alone, or
should that be left to the project membership
Hello Steve, Luk, and Zak!
Having just particpated in the latest SPI board meeting, I've learned
that The Debian Project currently has over 125k USD in reserve. This
amount (even setting aside the recent 30k debconf9 sponsorship by HP)
seems to be at a point where we as a project should start
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