Le Mercredi 19 Mars 2003 13:29, Ralf Nolden a �crit : > As commercial distros get less and their money shrinks so will their > support for KDE in terms of employing people fulltime like Waldo. So I'm > trying to find a way that will possibly lead us to the situation where the > KDE project can finance itself better and maybe in a the future being able > to employ developers. > > Ralf >
The easiest way to make a few euros is selling the Live KDE-CD at shows by volunteers. KDE-France made some money with it and I guess that KDE-Ev made some money at Cebit (using your packages). Selling CDs all around the world is a cumbersome task : you will need a EU VAT number, a way to clear the payments, somebody to mail the CD's, a Visa Card account. A lot of work for a very little amount of money. If we want to raise more money for KDE Ev, I think a much more interesting parth would be to ask money from the European Commission as we have a big majority of our programmers and users are from 'Old' Europe and that the R&D programs are looking for truly European Programs to finance. But it is a bit offtopic to talk about that here, it is more a kde-promo topic. Cheers, Charles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kde-france.org
