I'm all for the gnome or FS foundations. I think doing anything other than donating it would be unduly complicated.
-Matt William Jon McCann wrote: > Hey, > > On 12/19/06, *James Doc Livingston* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > G'day everyone, > > A little while ago John Buckman (founder of MangnaTune) contacted me, > checking up on how the MagnaTune-Rhythmbox integration was going > and the > like. > > > One of the things he mentioned was that they we setting they'd set > things up so that a small amount (10%) of the purchase price of tracks > bought with Amarok was being set aside to go back into funding the > development Amarok. > > He made that same offer to us, namely that is we wanted they would > give > back some of the proceeds from Rhythmbox-related sales to fund > development. I thanked him for the offer, and said we'd need to > discuss > what we would do with any money. > > So now we need to discuss what we could possibly do with any money > they > gave us. > > > I don't have any particular ideas about what we could do with it - > if we > can't think of anything, we could donate it to the GNOME foundation or > something. > > > I'm not sure that we want to repeat the experience we had with > bounties. I'm sure the core developers know what I mean. > > So, it might be a nice gesture to donate the money to a non-profit > that explicitly supports the development or promotion of audio/video > freedoms. > > So maybe (in order of relevance): > > 1. Xiph.org <http://Xiph.org> > - http://xiph.org/about/ > - http://xiph.org/donate/ > > 2. FSF > - https://www.fsf.org/donate/ > > 3. CC > - http://creativecommons.org/support/ > > 4. EFF > - http://www.eff.org/about/ > - https://secure.eff.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=DON_splash > > 5. GNOME Foundation > - http://www.gnome.org/friends/ > > If we choose one of 1-4 perhaps we can see if Amarok would be > interested in doing the same. > > Jon > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel > _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
