No matter if budget is going to be a problem I do see the point in actually budgeting for it and understanding the implementation costs. That might inspire us to think of different implementations that work out better for us, and at least uncover problems that need to be solved or decisions that need to be made. The paid for spam filter is an interesting problem.
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:23 PM, David Ascher <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 25, 2013, at 6:14 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > I'm not trying to shoot this down, I want to make sure that we all are > aware that this can quickly become a significant investment, and then how > do we scale it to the vision that Mitchell gave us for our contributor base > in the years to come? > > If we agree value in a @mozilla.org identity, I’m more than happy to > build the business case for it. I had a board member suggest that he’d > gladly cash pay as his contribution in exchange for an address that he > could “wear proudly”. > > I truly don’t believe that sourcing the money side should be a blocker to > this conversation. US universities provide this service because it leads > to donations that far outweigh the opex. We certainly shouldn’t be talking > about whose budget it would come from at this point, although I understand > your fear that you’d be expected to cover it. > > —da > > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
