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 our

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 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 business.

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

2012-03-12 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 convinced

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 what for

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