On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> wbrana wrote: >>> Page www.gentoo.org asks for donations >>> "Donate to support our development efforts." >>> Gentoo could get more money if all *.gentoo.org would contain >>> advertisements. >>> >>> >> >> >> My questions are this: Does Gentoo need more money? Is it in need of >> more funds to support itself? > > On a yearly basis, we take in more money than we spend. We primarily > spend money on fees (legal, accountant, etc) and funding requests > (infra hardware, requests from foundation members.) > > Its all on http://foundation.gentoo.org if you are curious. The 2011 > report notes that we have approximately $70,000 USD in funds. Some > Gentoo developers want to do more conference-type events. However > those typically come with much higher budgets than our funds and > require sponsors to make happen. Without clearer goals on what to > spend the money on, I can't really see the need to increase our > advertising.
Could some of the money be spent on bug bounties? [snip] -- :wq
