desculpem o cross-posting, mas quem pretende colaborar com algum $$$, tem aqui uma boa opcao.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Theo de Raadt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 6:55 PM Subject: Pre-orders for our releases. >I would like to remind our community that our project lives and > breathes because of the sale of CDs and the receipt of donations. In > the last few years a few very large donations have allowed our > hackathons to happen, but other than that we are always digging > ourself a bigger and bigger hole. > > Most of our user community increases their use of the FTP servers, > while we naturally sell fewer CDs. For instance, I would approximate > that the sale of every T-shirt we make probably does not pay for the > electricity used in the machine room. It's about $5000 a year. > > This is placing a severe strain on our ability to toss money at > projects. For instance, we want to hold more mini-hackathons, since > they are so incredibly productive. And we would like to pay for more > travel expenses for developers to these events, since there are always > developers who are less fortunate. > > Yet almost all of our donations really do come from individuals, and > almost none from companies using our software. Even though there are > many many companies doing so. Some companies are small, but there are > also quite large ones. And banks. Government institutions. Ones you > see in the news every day. And operating system vendors who reuse our > code. > > But financially we are under strain, and it is not letting us grow any > of our bigger plans. If anyone has any real clout to make changes > within institutions that could help us in the long term, please do. > Like universities, or even companies that want to sponsor an entire > hackathon. > > (But please do not send suggestions, because unfortunately we think we > have heard every single one of them before, and people never listen > when we say that it is not viable for us to play non-profit games, nor > selling special merchandise, nor will it help to hire people to write > special books. We've heard all these ideas before. Having us impliment > more ideas does not help. It's time for outsiders to impliment things > which just let us continue what we do). > > _______________________________________________ freebsd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fug.com.br/listinfo.cgi/freebsd-fug.com.br
