On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Eike Hein <[email protected]> wrote:
> If we were to incubate Thunderbird, it would need to supply really > really strong answers for how it's going to pull its own weight to > offset the resource and PR cost. > > (Forgot to reply to this) I am not especially worried about this. When a company "offloads" an unwanted product or division, the agreement usually involves money exchanging hands (in this case from Mozilla to KDE) to pay for the adaptation, initial setup, maybe some developers, etc I am actually more worried about our ability to manage too many resources. One of the articles I read about Thunderbird going to some new organization mentioned the SFC was worried Thunderbird would be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, project under their umbrella. According to the financial statement for 2014 (released end of February 2015), they manage around USD 1M and their biggest project is Samba, with USD 177k. https://sfconservancy.org/docs/conservancy_independent-audit_fy-2014.pdf Mozilla, on the other hand, has around USD 137M: https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Financials_2014.pdf The eV is much smaller than any of those. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org
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