On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Alec Warner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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...
kk. I'll stop adding noise to this list on this topic. :) -- :wq
