Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
I'm redirecting this thread to d-project... You and I tend to think about money very much DebConf-wise (specially in the March-July period ;-) ), but I think this is going away from the current d-vote topic. Please reply to this message to d-project only. Holger Levsen dijo [Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1

Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:50:44PM +0100, Arno Töll wrote: > As I already reported, he would basically like to see a financial > summary for what purpose Debian spends money. It may be all obvious to > Debian Developers but it is not to outsiders. He literally said "If I > donate Debian 20 servers,

Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-13 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 13.03.2012 09:19, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > How about the Sprint page I've mentioned in my previous reply? I > know that it has worked well for other $companies, but it'd be > useful to know if your $company find that convincing or not. If > t

Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-13 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:13:38AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > But I've learned that we need to communicate this a whole lot better. Ideas > how ... would be best directed to debian-project :) Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? gpg key -

Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 12. März 2012, Arno Töll wrote: > We sponsored both, Debian and DebConf in the past but my boss does not > feel very comfortable to sponsor DebConfs because he's more interested > to support actual Debian work as a distribution, as Debian is the > system we rely upon for our busines

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

2012-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:04:34PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > It would probably be useful to have a single location in the w.d.o > hierarchy which listed recent money expenditures by the project, with > links to announcements and blog posts or similar. [And in the case of > hardware, pictures of

Re: Finding sponsors for Debian

2012-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:46:13PM +0100, Arno Töll wrote: > We sponsored both, Debian and DebConf in the past but my boss does not > feel very comfortable to sponsor DebConfs because he's more interested > to support actual Debian work as a distribution, as Debian is the > system we rely upon for

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