Jorge Araya Navarro <[email protected]> writes: > After reading almost all the emails on this topic, I would like to says few > things: > > 1) Money is not in anyway the problem, the problem is in the heart of > man (bear in mind what are my > interests[1] so you can now on what basis I say this) which makes his > legitimate needs for money in order to > live with dignity a disorder called avarice. In the same way that food > is not the problem but neither being > hungry but the disorder called gluttony which man allows to grow as he > stop practicing the virtues. > > So yeah, the 99% vs 1% stuff is not a problem created by money but by > lack of virtue. Want to solve it? practice > the virtues, now. > > 2) The project needs money in order to avoid getting its domain > expired, using certificates from companies > that aren't included by any web browser (We have an interest of > Windows and MacOS users visiting the project's > website without getting scared by a Cert warning, right?) or having > troubles with the project's servers and > having to relay in other's people or organization good will in order > to have everything working and > accessible. > > 3) for what it is suggested, I don't think we need a committee. If > people here on Parabola want to present > themselves as project contributor to other people/news > reporters/organizations/etc they should assign > themselves a title based on what they do most, i.e.: you only make > package? you are a «packager monkey» you build tools for other > Parabolers to use within the project? then you are «Lukeshu», etc. > > 4) Arch linux provides a way to increase the priority for bug fixes > through bounties placed by the users[2], doing the same in > Parabola is not wrong but, since the Arch guys will solve the issue > for us, seems to be pointless. What > technical issues presented to the users exists in Parabola that do not > exists in Arch? if they exists and > arise from time to time then it may be a good idea. As I said, money > is good and it doesn't dim the good faith > and honesty of the contributor which he carries anyway when working to > complete the task. > > 5) The non-profit stuff should be manage by any institution like the > Software Freedom Conservancy or alike, > that's for sure. > > 6) The money will be needed to stay in someone's pocket, I suggest > that it get manage by a institution for > non-profits, like a Software Freedom Conservancy but for managing > money, then authorized people from the > project (I guess, "the well-known faces" to put it in some way) just > need to say "pay this, this and this" and > such institution will use the money in existence to pay for those > things (I don't even know if such thing > exists or it is already cover by any institution from the point 5). > > Those are my thoughts on the matter. > > [1]: https://www.parabola.nu/hackers/#Shackra > [2]: Ok, I remember this, I'm sure they do but I checked today and > there wasn't a button to set a bounty or > something alike... maybe I'm confusing the Arch linux bug tracker with > some other Flyspray instance I saw on > the internet that have this feature. <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign>
Sounds wise. -- Aurelien Desbrieres http://www.hackers.camp _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
