On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Peter J. Philipp <p...@centroid.eu> wrote: > 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.
until libre office takes ~30 $50 dollar donations, bombarding my terminal with names of insecure ppl > # > > 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
