Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-12 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 12.03.2012 23:19, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> Actually, $boss asked me the other day how to support Debian >> better as he wasn't very convinced about usefulness of money >> donations to Debian as he didn't get much feedback about that, >> other than

Re: Visible results from sponsor funds [Re: Finding sponsors for Debian]

2012-03-12 Thread Simon Paillard
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:04:34PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Arno Töll wrote: > > Actually, $boss asked me the other day how to support Debian better > > as he wasn't very convinced about usefulness of money donations to > > Debian as he didn't get much feedback about that,

Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Arno Töll dijo [Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:55:25PM +0100]: > as somebody who pushed $work to donate money to Debian (i.e. via > FFIS), I always wondered about the financial merits of these > donations. As much as I am involved to work within Debian, I have no > clue what you used "our" money for. I am

Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:55:25PM +0100, Arno Töll wrote: > as somebody who pushed $work to donate money to Debian (i.e. via > FFIS), I always wondered about the financial merits of these > donations. As much as I am involved to work within Debian, I have no > clue what you used "our" money for. I

Visible results from sponsor funds [Re: Finding sponsors for Debian]

2012-03-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Arno Töll wrote: > Actually, $boss asked me the other day how to support Debian better > as he wasn't very convinced about usefulness of money donations to > Debian as he didn't get much feedback about that, other than a tax > deductable receipt. It would probably be useful to

Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-12 Thread Martin Schulze
Arno Töll wrote: > as somebody who pushed $work to donate money to Debian (i.e. via > FFIS), I always wondered about the financial merits of these > donations. As much as I am involved to work within Debian, I have no > clue what you used "our" money for. I am probably not literally > interested wh

Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-12 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On 12.03.2012 19:25, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:16:42AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Over the years, I've always been very surprised to see that >> there's very little money that Debian is able to get. I'm >> conv