On 05/21/2014 05:17 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
Now regarding foundation and these other projects. I've long thought that need to find a way to support these projects. I have a proposal in the works that will suggest that the Foundation will help pay for hackfests that does not benefit GNOME the product (e.g. the desktop) but does benefit GNOME the eco-system. The idea is that in exchange for the money, that everyone would participate in working in the lower levels of the stack and not necessarily the design. This is controversial because of using our finances, but there are questions on whether this will dilute the brand. But that is a separate discussion.
This is very interesting, considering projects like Mate and Elementary OS have donation systems by themselves and I assume income from that [1] [2]. The other thing is that the foundation have limited funds as it is. I would love to hear other candidates view on this matter. It would be a deal breaker for me.
1. http://mate-desktop.org/donate/ 2. http://elementaryos.org/ (you donate when you download it) - Andreas _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
