Re: Outreachy favouritism and wasted Debian money

2020-02-21 Thread Aron Xu
s than a decade before, this includes GSoC which does not cost Debian money. So it would be a good thing to evaluate whether we consider a longer term commitment to outreachy is profitable and desirable, or we find the gap between expectation and reality suggests something else. Best regards, Aron

Outreachy favouritism and wasted Debian money

2020-02-19 Thread Ken Starr
People tried to hush up the outreachy issue but it is now time before Debian wastes more money in another foolish round. We have a woman in Outreachy who already did a lot for Debian, doing the Debian booth at FOSDEM 2018, organising a miniDebConf in Tirana 2018 and organizing Balkans biggest

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 6/2/19 3:39 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 21:04 +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > [...] >> However, without an HPE donation or discount, we are much more likely to >> follow a less expensive approach: pairs of 2U servers with local >> storage, etc. Still not cheap but not

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-15 Thread Sam Hartman
It was pointed out to me that my mail could have been misread in a number of ways. nothing in my message is meant to alter the delegations currently in place. Rather, my desire is to further empower our delegated teams. If there are going to be any grants to fund work for some of our teams,

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-14 Thread Sam Hartman
to helping with as DPL. There is insufficient support at this time to entertain paying salaried positions from Debian money. Some of the objections include the following. We don't have sufficient recurring funds. Managing people and handling performance issues is a skill set we do not select for. Doing

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 09:24:59AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Philip Hands dijo [Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 10:51:10AM +0200]: > > It occurs to me that we could establish some sort of hardship fund to > > make sure that someone who's current situation falls below some minimum > > that we could define,

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Philip Hands dijo [Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 10:51:10AM +0200]: > It occurs to me that we could establish some sort of hardship fund to > make sure that someone who's current situation falls below some minimum > that we could define, they would be able to apply for funding. > > For example, I recently

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-04 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 08:42:02PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Gunnar" == Gunnar Wolf writes: > > Gunnar> I am aware your example is just an example - But don't you > Gunnar> think that following through with this would have a sad > Gunnar> effect on the www team: It would be

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-03 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Gunnar" == Gunnar Wolf writes: Gunnar> I am aware your example is just an example - But don't you Gunnar> think that following through with this would have a sad Gunnar> effect on the www team: It would be equivalent to tell them, Gunnar> "thanks for your work for so many

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Sam Hartman dijo [Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 09:02:54AM -0400]: > (...) > > With regard to Russ's concerns, > I think that making short-term grants to work on specific projects might > be much more achievable for us than salaries. It reduces the factors > he's worried about. > I think there would

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 21:04 +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: [...] > However, without an HPE donation or discount, we are much more likely to > follow a less expensive approach: pairs of 2U servers with local > storage, etc. Still not cheap but not multiples of 100k. > > If a hardware vendor happens

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve McIntyre > On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 12:29:04PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > >This is a hugely important point: we're already seeing conflicts where > >people conflate the paid-for LTS effort with other team's priorities. > >If we move that funding closer to Debian, we're effectively

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
"G. Branden Robinson" writes: > My two cents[4] is that DSA should make its purchasing and hardware > solicitation decisions with the architectural security issue fairly far > down the priority list. It saddens me to say that, but this new class > of exploits, what van Schaik et al. call

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2019-06-01T09:04:39+0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Are we then looking more closely at AMD-based machines given that > those had less problems around speculative attacks? To borrow a phrase from Christopher Hitchens, this comment gives a hostage to fortune. My team at work closely follows (and

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Carter writes: > On 2019/06/01 19:55, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I very much doubt that our current donation-driven model would generate >> US $1M per year on a sustained basis, particularly if you subtract >> DebConf out of the mix (which I think we should, because that money is >>

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/06/01 19:55, Russ Allbery wrote: > I very much doubt that our current donation-driven model would generate US > $1M per year on a sustained basis, particularly if you subtract DebConf > out of the mix (which I think we should, because that money is essentially DebConf tends to bring in

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Adrian Bunk writes: > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 04:07:54PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I could well be entirely wrong, but the part that I would expect to be >> the most controversial is that, once Debian starts spending project >> money to pay people to do work that other people in the project

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 12:29:04PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >]] Russ Allbery > >> These dynamics change a *lot* when the money is coming from >> the project itself. That money is special; it's not just one more company >> or foundation or whatnot that is providing resources to aid in a

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 12:29:04PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Russ Allbery > > Particularly now that my free time is rarer and more precious to me, > > doing unpaid work for an organization that also has paid staff is > > hugely demotivating. It's entirely plausible that paying for > >

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 09:09:26AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk writes: > > >> > >> Talking about the issues involved in paying people to do work. > >> What the options are, collecting people's concerns etc. > >> > >> I actually think the first

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk writes: >> >> Talking about the issues involved in paying people to do work. >> What the options are, collecting people's concerns etc. >> >> I actually think the first round of that can be done without >> significant access to numbers.

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Ondřej" == Ondřej Surý writes: Ondřej>It might be worth looking on how other organizations in Ondřej> our ballpark are doing stuff. f.e. IETF/ISOC is in similar Ondřej> situation to Debian/SPI. I'm no longer really involved in the IETF, but I was involved in the IETF for

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery > These dynamics change a *lot* when the money is coming from > the project itself. That money is special; it's not just one more company > or foundation or whatnot that is providing resources to aid in a general > volunteer project. It becomes a loaded statement about what

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Judit Foglszinger
> But yes, it's entirely possible that I'm being too cautious. I'd say, being cautious in this case is very warranted. One of the things, that are good about Debian is, that it's _not_ cooperate. "You will not work for free for a company. Debian is not a company." Throwing in money has a high

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:46:02PM -0600, Eldon Koyle wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 5:08 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > Adrian Bunk writes: > > > > > My biggest high level concern is the income side, since this is the most > > > difficult part and will likely also be the most controversial

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 04:07:54PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes: > > > My biggest high level concern is the income side, since this is the most > > difficult part and will likely also be the most controversial one. > > I could well be entirely wrong, but the part that I would

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Ondřej Surý
Again I would suggest looking at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4071 as a start to learn from the experience of others. It’s a change in paradigm, but somehow I feel that this is needed if we want to keep up to par with other parties in the same field. P.S.: At no point of time I am speaking

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Philipp Kern
On 5/31/2019 11:04 PM, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > Before you ask: an insecure hypervisor is an insecure buildd. Are we then looking more closely at AMD-based machines given that those had less problems around speculative attacks? Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Ondřej Surý
work. Then this must also include balancing whether we can improve the function if the function is contracted and there are “hard” requirements. Personally, I don’t have any problem with paying people with Debian money if the competition for the function is transparent (thus done by third party

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Eldon Koyle
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 5:08 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > > Adrian Bunk writes: > > > My biggest high level concern is the income side, since this is the most > > difficult part and will likely also be the most controversial one. > > I could well be entirely wrong, but the part that I would expect

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Ximin Luo writes: > Nobody is suggesting that it won't be a hard problem to get right, but > progress isn't made by worrying about all the things that could possibly > go wrong. Figuring out a blueprint for organising large-scale work > using more directly-democratic principles would have lots

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Ximin Luo
Russ Allbery: > [..] > I respect the desire to try social experiments and be bold, but my counter > question is whether Debian as a project has the right training and the > right people to conduct a proper social experiment *here*, on *this* > particular topic. Do we have economists?

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Ximin Luo
Russ Allbery: > [..] The failure mode here is that we lose contributors > because of hard feelings over who gets paid and who doesn't get paid and > how much they get paid and how they get paid, and the project ends up > weaker and more fragile. [..] > > For example, you say "democratic mandate,"

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Ximin Luo writes: > A lot of people are already paid full-time to work on Debian. Wouldn't > it be better to additionally have some other people be paid full-time to > work on Debian under a democratic mandate (our voting system) rather > than under corporate orders? At the very least, it would

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Ximin Luo
Russ Allbery: > Adrian Bunk writes: > >> My biggest high level concern is the income side, since this is the most >> difficult part and will likely also be the most controversial one. > > I could well be entirely wrong, but the part that I would expect to be the > most controversial is that,

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Holger Levsen
dear Russ, once again, many thanks for expressing nicely what I couldnt express that well. My thoughts exactly. -- tschau, Holger, who first wanted to send this in private to Russ and then decided against.

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Adrian Bunk writes: > My biggest high level concern is the income side, since this is the most > difficult part and will likely also be the most controversial one. I could well be entirely wrong, but the part that I would expect to be the most controversial is that, once Debian starts spending

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:57:51PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:56:16PM +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > > > For me this implies that Debian should aim at having at least US$500k > > > reserves, to be prepared if there is no large donation coming for a > > > future

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:56:16PM +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > > For me this implies that Debian should aim at having at least US$500k > > reserves, to be prepared if there is no large donation coming for a > > future refresh. > Plus another $300k in reserves for DebConf in case those

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 01:50:25AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 09:04:24PM +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > >... > > When we last crunched the numbers, maintaining a 5y refresh (to stay in > > warranty, etc.) would require $75k-100k/yr. We've avoided that level of > > annual

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 09:04:24PM +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: >... > When we last crunched the numbers, maintaining a 5y refresh (to stay in > warranty, etc.) would require $75k-100k/yr. We've avoided that level of > annual expenditure because we are keeping hardware longer than 5y and > we've

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 05:29:42PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk writes: > > I agree that's missing. > > I don't think that is the important information needed to drive the > discussions I'm hoping someone will drive. > > Instead I'm more interested in seeing

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk writes: I agree that's missing. I don't think that is the important information needed to drive the discussions I'm hoping someone will drive. Instead I'm more interested in seeing discussions at a high level. Talking about the issues involved in paying people to

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 07:49:25AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > [moving a discussion from -devel to -project where it belongs] > > > "Mo" == Mo Zhou writes: > > Mo> Hi, > Mo> On 2019-05-29 08:38, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >> Use the $300,000 on our bank accounts? > > So, there

Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-05-29 Thread Sam Hartman
[moving a discussion from -devel to -project where it belongs] > "Mo" == Mo Zhou writes: Mo> Hi, Mo> On 2019-05-29 08:38, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> Use the $300,000 on our bank accounts? So, there were two $300k donations in the last year. One of these was earmarked for a DSA

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-12-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
towards having clear guidelines for what is acceptable and what isn't in terms of spending Debian money. Please provide feedback on the proposed decisions -- they are not final yet. Hello, and apologies for being so late in responding. I only noted this discussion after a DPL report

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-12-25 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 07:00:10PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: So, I really saw this purchase as purchasing Debian infrastructure hosted at a Developer's rather than in a datacenter. Alright, that's well-reasoned. Something I'd throw in as a possible addition to this would be a formal

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-12-16 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013, Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org wrote: I received a few requests for hardware purchases, that I think are worth discussing with the project as a whole in order to progress towards having clear guidelines for what is acceptable and what isn't in terms of spending Debian

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-21 Thread Brian Gupta
of spending Debian money. Please provide feedback on the proposed decisions -- they are not final yet. A. Memory expansion cards for m68k buildds (expected cost: 500 EUR) === Widely quoting from a private mail: | Debian has

Aw: Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-21 Thread Steffen Möller
isn't in terms of spending Debian money. Please provide feedback on the proposed decisions -- they are not final yet. A. Memory expansion cards for m68k buildds (expected cost: 500 EUR) === ... B. Powerful machine for d-i

Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, I received a few requests for hardware purchases, that I think are worth discussing with the project as a whole in order to progress towards having clear guidelines for what is acceptable and what isn't in terms of spending Debian money. Please provide feedback on the proposed decisions

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org writes: C. Laptop for developer (expected cost: 1k-1.5k EUR?) = I have no particular comment on the merits of this specific request, but that cost jumped out at me. I don't know if systems are more expensive

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-10-20, Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org wrote: A. Memory expansion cards for m68k buildds (expected cost: 500 EUR) B. Powerful machine for d-i development (expected cost: 1.5k-2k EUR?) C. Laptop for developer (expected cost: 1k-1.5k EUR?) As such, I think all of it sounds

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Romain Francoise
Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org writes: But I would welcome other ideas of criterias to apply here. I think we should spend donation money only on things that benefit everybody. Sponsoring hardware to help maintain core packages like d-i, glibc, the kernel, etc would be okay. But buying

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 05:41:39PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: B. Powerful machine for d-i development (expected cost: 1.5k-2k EUR?) = The estimation is a bit too large for a decent desktop machine. 1. performing more

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:48:58PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 05:41:39PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: B. Powerful machine for d-i development (expected cost: 1.5k-2k EUR?) = The estimation is a bit

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 09:11 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Lucas Nussbaum lea...@debian.org writes: C. Laptop for developer (expected cost: 1k-1.5k EUR?) = I have no particular comment on the merits of this specific request, but that cost

Re: Debian money

2009-09-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
will not accept a browser without working Flash. I believe that should be a priority of the Debian project to provide a complete free software desktop. And as Gnash is one of the few projects where money will help speed up development, I believe spending Debian money on Gnash is a good idea. Why should

Re: Debian money

2009-09-29 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Gunnar Wolf] Some of the big distributions have no moral problem in including Adobe's propietary plugin, though. We do. Really? I was not aware that it was a moral issue. I thought it was a question of licensing, where the license from Adobe prohibited distribution on the web by third

snapshot.debian.{net,org} and spending Debian money

2009-09-25 Thread Andreas Tille
to notice any progress. I have not read all the mails about how to spend Debian money but if you ask me money would be very reasonably spent if this service would be back and running quickly. Kind regards Andreas. [1] http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2008/09/index.html [2] http

Re: snapshot.debian.{net,org} and spending Debian money

2009-09-25 Thread Paul Wise
].  Since this time more than 13 monthes went without that I was able to notice any progress.  I have not read all the mails about how to spend Debian money but if you ask me money would be very reasonably spent if this service would be back and running quickly. snapshot.debian.org is already

Re: snapshot.debian.{net,org} and spending Debian money

2009-09-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 02:13:15PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: snapshot.debian.org A DNS entry for this address containing a short status message would be helpful. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de Klarmachen zum Ändern! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: snapshot.debian.{net,org} and spending Debian money

2009-09-25 Thread Stephen Gran
this time more than 13 monthes went without that I was able to notice any progress. I have not read all the mails about how to spend Debian money but if you ask me money would be very reasonably spent if this service would be back and running quickly. Work is progressing, and it's already mostly

Re: snapshot.debian.{net,org} and spending Debian money

2009-09-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: provide this info there and ask the .jp admins to also put some information about the status online. Unlikely. The person who operated s.d.n is overworked as it is. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader

Re: Debian money

2009-09-20 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Bernd: On Wednesday 16 September 2009 19:14:41 Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Some months ago Debian asked for sponsored hardware: http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090208 I did not read any news about his, so maybe we could use some money for such infrastructure

Re: Debian money

2009-09-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Bernd Zeimetz | Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: | | No need for SAN, direct-attached SAS or a SAS enclosure would be sufficient | for both snapshot.d.o and data.d.o (with a proper hardware-raid controller | | Remember, both services might start to grow pretty fast. A direct-attached |

Re: Debian money / hw summits / partner meetings / government / schools / workshops

2009-09-18 Thread Andre Felipe Machado
Hello, It is worth to consider some key face to face and summits with OEMs [0] and potential partners [1], along with funding developers meetings. Canonical is already doing [0], as it is very needed. If I recall correctly some time ago Michlmayr traveled to Asia for some oem meetings. As an

Re: Debian money

2009-09-17 Thread Leszek Dubiel
Hello! The main target of Debian Project is to produce the free and most reliable linux distribution in the world. Developers donate their free time to project, while users donate money. I think you should use that money to assure that developers don't have to spent their private money for

Re: Debian money

2009-09-17 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
The main target of Debian Project is to produce the free and most reliable linux distribution in the world. Debian it's our 'product' and we are (very) proud of it. And we also believe it's good to share it. -- media to share it: Debian releases are media images full of free software.

Re: Debian money

2009-09-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Some months ago Debian asked for sponsored hardware: http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090208 I did not read any news about his, so maybe we could use some money for such infrastructure hardware. We were and are

Re: Debian money

2009-09-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: No need for SAN, direct-attached SAS or a SAS enclosure would be sufficient for both snapshot.d.o and data.d.o (with a proper hardware-raid controller Remember, both services might start to grow pretty fast. A direct-attached enclosure does not grow... (yeah,

Re: Debian money

2009-09-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Some months ago Debian asked for sponsored hardware: http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090208 I did not read any news about his, so maybe we could use some money for such infrastructure hardware. We were and are still hoping to get at least one machine sponsored

Re: Debian money

2009-09-15 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 06:42:46PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: [...] but Debian could support companies started by its developers to make a living of their Debian-related activities, by contributing to their capital.

Re: Debian money

2009-09-14 Thread MJ Ray
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: [...] but Debian could support companies started by its developers to make a living of their Debian-related activities, by contributing to their capital. [...] We can't do that with moneys collected in the

Re: Debian money

2009-09-14 Thread Russ Allbery
MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: We can't do that with moneys collected in the United States under the aegis of Software in the Public Interest. It would jeopardize the non-profit status of SPI. Non-profit charities are not permitted to make

Re: Debian money

2009-09-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello Steve and everybody, I forsee that it is very difficult because of the hundreds of borders in our world, but Debian could support companies started by its developers to make a living of their Debian-related activities, by contributing to their capital. This way, Debian would invest in its

Debian Booths (was: Debian money)

2009-09-13 Thread Joey Schulze
Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:04:42PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: * Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt h...@ftwca.de [2009-09-10 16:01]: Steve McIntyre lea...@debian.org writes: 4 Marketing stuff: a box(es) of equipment to take to stands at various shows and expos.

Re: Debian money

2009-09-13 Thread Luk Claes
Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2009-09-09, Steve McIntyre lea...@debian.org wrote: 1 New hardware / equipment a The DSA team have a wishlist of new hardware they'd like, along with a set of donated machines that need configuring and/or shipping. As far as I'm concerned, so long as the

Re: Debian money

2009-09-13 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 05:49:18PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Hello Steve and everybody, I forsee that it is very difficult because of the hundreds of borders in our world, but Debian could support companies started by its developers to make a living of their Debian-related activities, by

Re: Debian money

2009-09-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: I forsee that it is very difficult because of the hundreds of borders in our world, but Debian could support companies started by its developers to make a living of their Debian-related activities, by contributing to their capital. This way, Debian

Re: Debian money

2009-09-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: On 2009-09-09, Steve McIntyre lea...@debian.org wrote: c marketing to new developers: posters to put up at universities? T-shirts or other gifts for new people working on bug-fixes, translations etc.? Could be useful, but again expensive.

Re: Debian money

2009-09-13 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:25:52AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: I forsee that it is very difficult because of the hundreds of borders in our world, but Debian could support companies started by its developers to make a living of their Debian-related

Re: Debian money / Hardware certification

2009-09-12 Thread Michael Goetze
Hi, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Yes. There's a kindof market point I've been wishing on Debian for years knowing that it simply could happen: certifications and generally rising attention to commercial producers, both hardware and (free/open) software. I think there's right now a thread on

Re: Debian money

2009-09-12 Thread George Danchev
Steve McIntyre lea...@debian.org writes: 4 Marketing stuff: a box(es) of equipment to take to stands at various shows and expos. Might be useful, but could be expensive. Where do we store it/them? Who organises shipping? I think this is something which we should pursue. I

Re: Debian money

2009-09-12 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi, We have a significant amount of money, but I would not define it as a huge amount. There's quite a long list, in *rough* order of the priority I would (personally) give them so far. 1 New hardware / equipment 2 Fund developer gatherings: My full support to spend money on this. In

Re: Debian money

2009-09-11 Thread Martin Owens
, getting some tools put together or found that record money use, availability and purpose. http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/debian-money/ Regards, Martin Owens On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 00:57 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Steve McIntyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ

Re: Debian money

2009-09-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:19:21PM +0200, Harald Geyer wrote: Well, after the dunc-tank desaster I started to recommend to people not to donate any money to debian at all but to upstreams instead, because debian has more money than it needs and giving more money to debian only will cause DDs

Re: Debian money

2009-09-11 Thread Harald Geyer
Marc Haber mh+debian-proj...@zugschlus.de wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:19:21PM +0200, Harald Geyer wrote: Well, after the dunc-tank desaster I started to recommend to people not to donate any money to debian at all but to upstreams instead, because debian has more money than it needs

Re: Debian money, booth on german church meeting

2009-09-10 Thread Thomas Koch
There's a german association, Linux user in der Kirche[1] (Linux user in the church), which plans to organize a booth on the next big meeting of the german church in 2010. They aim is to promote the usage of linux in the administrations of church communities and of course private use of linux.

Re: Debian money, booth on german church meeting

2009-09-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Thomas Koch wrote: There's a german association, Linux user in der Kirche[1] (Linux user in the church), which plans to organize a booth on the next big meeting of the german church in 2010. They aim is to promote the usage of linux in the administrations of church communities and of

Re: Debian money, booth on german church meeting

2009-09-10 Thread Thomas Koch
Thomas Koch wrote: There's a german association, Linux user in der Kirche[1] (Linux user in the church), which plans to organize a booth on the next big meeting of the german church in 2010. They aim is to promote the usage of linux in the administrations of church communities and of

Re: Debian money, booth on german church meeting

2009-09-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Thomas Koch wrote: Thomas Koch wrote: There's a german association, Linux user in der Kirche[1] (Linux user in the church), which plans to organize a booth on the next big meeting of the german church in 2010. They aim is to promote the usage of linux in the administrations of

Re: Debian money, booth on german church meeting

2009-09-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: Thomas Koch wrote: Thomas Koch wrote: There's a german association, Linux user in der Kirche[1] (Linux user in the church), which plans to organize a booth on the next big meeting of the german church in 2010. They aim is to promote the usage of linux in

Re: Debian money, booth on german church meeting

2009-09-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:52:37AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: It seems to me that these consulting businesses would be good addresses to ask for sponsorship of a Debian/GNU/Linux booth if there is no way getting a free booth for a charitable association such as the Debian Project or the

Re: Debian money

2009-09-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 10 septembre 2009 à 00:57 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit : 1 New hardware / equipment a The DSA team have a wishlist of new hardware they'd like […] Full ack. Hardware is not that expensive, lack of hardware should not hold back any of our development. b Maintainers of big

Re: Debian money

2009-09-10 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Steve McIntyre wrote: 1 New hardware / equipment a The DSA team have a wishlist of new hardware they'd like, along with a set of donated machines that need configuring and/or shipping. As far as I'm concerned, so long as the individual requests here look reasonable then they

Re: Debian money

2009-09-10 Thread Mauro Lizaur
2009-09-10, Steve McIntyre: Hi folks, Suggestions and comments from others [...] 6 Fund other related projects a Debian Edu. Clearly good for us to do - heavily linked with Debian. I think that this could be really interesting.

Re: Debian money

2009-09-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 10 September 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: 5 Pay people to do stuff we don't/can't/won't: g website redesign and restructuring This is something we seem unable to make any progress at and that is very much overdue. Especially the restructuring part would

Re: Debian money

2009-09-10 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Steve McIntyre lea...@debian.org writes: 4 Marketing stuff: a box(es) of equipment to take to stands at various shows and expos. Might be useful, but could be expensive. Where do we store it/them? Who organises shipping? I think this is something which we should pursue. I

Re: Debian money

2009-09-10 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-09-10, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: On Thursday 10 September 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: 5 Pay people to do stuff we don't/can't/won't: g website redesign and restructuring This is something we seem unable to make any progress at and that is very much

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