On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Alec Warner <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Dale <[email protected]> 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?
You want gentoo-nfp@, not this list. I'm trying to move the discussion there. Go visit the foundation webpages I linked to earlier. Funding requests are pretty easy to write... -A > > [snip] > > -- > :wq >
