It seems like you would need to have a good grasp on what all of the expenses were before you could decide how to meet them. LJ sponsors the project site right? What other development expenses are there? A few possibilities I thought of: - Core devs' travel expense? - Conference materials (do you guys use posterboards at OSCON or others)? - How about using the money to offset the costs of hosting a couple django workshops in the metro areas that purchase the most django merchandise? - What about donating it to a worthy charity, maybe some musical program, in keeping with the theme?
Just a few off the top of my head...Your total bill comes to $0.01 On 12/7/06, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 12/7/06, Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There was a discussion a long time ago about Django t-shirts (at > > OSCON?). My question for the core devs is: Why not set up a quick Cafe > > Press site for a couple simple t-shirts and use the money to help fund > > development? Maybe put up bounties for some bugs or features? Or > > simply split the proceeds each month? > > It'd be great to have t-shirts, and I know Jacob and at least one > other person (in the UK, I think) have made Django t-shirts in the > past. > > My concern would be with the money. We would need to spell out > precisely how we'd spend the money *before* we got any money. The > "Producing Open Source Software" book has some good things to say > about that: > > """ > A widely-used project can sometimes get significant contributions, > from both individuals and organizations, just by having an online > donation button, or sometimes by selling branded merchandise such as > coffee mugs, T-shirts, mousepads, etc. A word of caution: if your > project accepts donations, plan out how the money will be used before > it comes in, and state the plans on the project's web site. > Discussions about how to allocate money tend to go a lot more smoothly > when held before there's actual money to spend; and anyway, if there > are significant disagreements, it's better to find that out while it's > still academic. > """ > > http://www.producingoss.com/html-chunk/money.html#types-of-involvement > > Adrian > > -- > Adrian Holovaty > holovaty.com | djangoproject.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
