If I were you, I will segregate the funds as though the contributor - developer or otherwise - will receive it.
Then, I will approach each contributor with, This is your fair share. Please receive it. If the contributor declines, I will ask the contributor "How do you think I should deploy your fair share?" Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi all, > > one question that was asked: How much donations come in? That varies. > Some month it is $10, occasionally it can be $100. > > What Bastien and I have done in the past is use this money in a more > or less private way. I think Bastien has at some point replaced his > laptop in this way, and all in all I have done the same, I think. This > felt OK previously, but it is not longer the right thing as far as I > am concerned. > > I have seen a few good ideas here. > > 1. Send it to the FSF. That is a possibility, but lets first try to do > something more Org specific > > 2. A Mug for every contributor. Stretches the available budget, and is > work. > We could make a list of contributors and start from the most commits > or something. > > 3. Help organise a conference. That would be a very good goal. Are > there any plans to organise a conference? > > 4. Redistribute to the most active developers for lighting up their > day. > > I propose the following: Starting March 1, I will report here the > donations I get once a month, and we will keep track of it and find a > good way to spend it. So far this month: $66. Lets revisit the > discussion in 2 or three months. Maybe by then there will be plans for > a conference, if not, we see. > > - Carsten > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Here's an impractical option. I see roughly 280 different > contributors > to Org-mode. > > git log|grep "^Author"|sed 's/^.*: > //;s/<.*$//'|less|sort|uniq|less > > Maybe buy every contributor an Org-mode mug? > > -- > Eric Schulte > https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte > PGP: 0x614CA05D > >