Carsten, I was at the Emacs Conference in London back in 2013; it was a great experience and there were people from all over the world (only <50% org-moders).
The idea of an org-mode conference is cool. I'm happy to provide facilities in Geldermalsen, the Netherlands at Snow, but Amsterdam, London or Paris seem like a better fit for this. We may consider piggybacking on the Emacs Conference though, I'm not sure when it's coming back, but it's something worth trying; it saves a lot of travelling. Saving money for an org-mode conference certainly is in line with the intention of the people behind the donations. In fact, I'll be happy to donate money then. regards, Joost Helberg >>>>> "Carsten" == Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> > To: Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> > Cc: org-mode list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org> > Subject: Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode? > Date: 13-Mar-14 23:06 > Hi all, > one question that was asked: How much donations come in? That varies. > Some month it is $10, occasionally it can be $100. > What Bastien and I have done in the past is use this money in a more or > less private way. I think Bastien has at some point replaced his laptop in > this way, and all in all I have done the same, I think. This felt OK > previously, but it is not longer the right thing as far as I am concerned. > I have seen a few good ideas here. > 1. Send it to the FSF. That is a possibility, but lets first try to do > something more Org specific > 2. A Mug for every contributor. Stretches the available budget, and is > work. > We could make a list of contributors and start from the most commits or > something. > 3. Help organise a conference. That would be a very good goal. Are there > any plans to organise a conference? > 4. Redistribute to the most active developers for lighting up their day. > I propose the following: Starting March 1, I will report here the > donations I get once a month, and we will keep track of it and find a good > way to spend it. So far this month: $66. Lets revisit the discussion in 2 > or three months. Maybe by then there will be plans for a conference, if > not, we see. > - Carsten > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com>wrote: >> Here's an impractical option. I see roughly 280 different contributors >> to Org-mode. >> >> git log|grep "^Author"|sed 's/^.*: //;s/<.*$//'|less|sort|uniq|less >> >> Maybe buy every contributor an Org-mode mug? >> >> -- >> Eric Schulte >> https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte >> PGP: 0x614CA05D >> >> -- Snow B.V.