On 01/15/14 19:41, Martin Schröder wrote: > 2014/1/15 Sia Lang <silverlangu...@gmail.com>: >> That small donation wouldn't have amounted to much, but I am positive you >> being the leader of this project is the very reason no one wants to step up >> with serious funding. > > Him being the leader is the very reason this project still exists.
I agree on that. Theo is not only a good programmer he is also a business man and has successfully sold his product. Since everyone has ideas, I want to put up another small idea of mine. When people donate even if it's $15 it's worth something, and we who donate are all appreciative of any amount given by peers. So then if 20,000 dollars is 365 days for electricity how about OpenBSD chops everyones donation into a timeslot. Every package built with the ports system at that timeslot then displays whose time it was that finalised the package. So if my time was used it would say: # pkg_add somepackage ... This package's buildtime was generously donated by Peter J. Philipp. # or # pkg_add someotherpackage ... This package's buildtime was generously donated by Scary Corporation. # The programming for this is probably the least of worries, OpenBSD has after all a bunch of coders. The other aspect is that it's advertising, but it's not too intrusive in my view, and it does honor the little guy too as his timeslot may build X amount of packages. People want to feel that they get something back so perhaps cross-referencing can be done who did what packages buildtime and that can be tracked back. It's advertising that particular person, making them feel a bond towards the project and they will likely donate again, to relive that feel. It's just an idea, Cheers, -peter
