also sprach Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> [2015-03-16 12:52 +0100]: > Re financial donations, I'd personally like to see more focus on > something like having 20k or more individuals donating $10 a year > and most of them listed on contributors.d.o, as opposed to turning > Debian into more of an advertising organisation, which seems to be > the end of the spectrum we are headed towards.
I don't think Debian should become an advertising organisation. We have identified some ways in which we could use money that IMHO requires a cash flow. So I am merely advocating finding ways of generating that cash flow based on our product and brand, without losing the soul. The problem with 20k × $10 / year is collection. We can let Paypal do this, but I am sure we would find people strongly opposed to Paypal here. But we'd need to use such a provider, working globally, but then you are looking at losing 5–10% of those funds to them. Anyway, the two are not at all in disagreement. Someone giving $10 to Debian every year should be treated with the same diligence as someone giving 20k, especially since the $10 are likely to be a larger cut of their budget than 20k for BigCorp. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "if you stew apples like cranberries, they taste more like prunes than rhubarb does." -- groucho marx
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