On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas <[email protected]> wrote: > The Debian Project receives quite a number of monetary donations as well > as contributions in kind via several umbrella organization like SPI, > ffis, debian.ch, etc. > > a) What do you think are valid goals to spend this money on?
I've been thinking about this for a long while now. I think that the areas that deserve spending Debian's money are: keeping Debian running, improving the overall quality of the OS, getting more people to contribute to Debian, and getting more people to use Debian. Currently, there's a portion that is used to fund developers travelling to work-meetings or to DebConf, and another one for shipping and setting up hardware. I think that these are all valid ways to spend money, and that we should encourage them. I also would like to see some money spent on promoting Debian, by providing materials for booths in conferences around the world. This would not be too much money from our accounts, but it could make a lot of difference regarding the image that people have of Debian. Another possibility that would help giving Debian visibility as well as improving the overall quality of the distribution, would be holding bug-fixing and bug-reporting bounties, but with Debian merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers, etc) as prizes (i.e. not monetary prizes)... And if it works we could maybe even get sponsors to donate some bigger prizes. I think that more money could be spent in financing travel for developers to attend conferences, meet with other contributors and give talks related to Debian. For this part, I think we should form a delegated committee, like we do for DebConf to allocate the money, so that it's not left to the arbitrary decision of the DPL. Obviously this should all be done as long as there's enough money left in the Debian accounts for hardware and emergency needs. > b) How would you think is a valid way to thank (hardware) contributors? > b) What qualifies a contributor to become a "Debian Partner"? What > qualifies a "Debian Partner"? This feels like a question from the NM process. The way to thank donors is by showing their logos and listing their contributions in the Debian Partners page. I'm not totally sure of what the question is. I don't know how it was decided which contributors are listed and which are not. But I guess that current providers of hardware and big money contributors should be listed, while past contributors should be listed in a separate "Previous Partners" or the like. -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
