On Dienstag, 30. März 2010, Tim Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 March 2010 17:08:51 Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> > On Dienstag, 30. März 2010, Scott Damron wrote:
> > > Might I suggest you start taking donations? This might help to make it a
> > > bit more dependable. I would donate!
> >
> > Donations would be welcome.
> > I tried to initiate this a couple of times and get SPI to
> > handle it. However, it has not happened yet.
>
> Sure it has. I'm also pretty sure I sent you the details at least once. SPI
> will quite happily handle donations (we even have a donations web page which
> allows donations directly into SPIs bank account (and labelled for our use).
> All I have said in the past is that I'm not keen on taking donations without
> some clear plan as to how they would be used. That's never been forthcoming,
> so I haven't push the donations features.
Well, its better up to the OpenVAS steering group to make decisions/plans here.
I intentionally do not involve myself here other than promoting that
OpenVAS should be more offensive in raising donations. I don't want
to give impression Greenbone tries to use donation money for own purposes.
Its entirely up to the OpenVAS community to decide where to go with such money.
> > But such donations would be best invested into developer effords
> > such we did with a NVT development contest some time ago.
> > I could also imagine paying students for interesting features
> > or travelling to gather OpenVAS developers at conferences, running
> > booths etc.
> >
> > Donations are not good to base a reliable service on as they don't
> > come in on a reliable basis. Thats where we hook in the companies
> > that deliver services around OpenVAS with the overall aim
> > of a sustainable development of NVTs and Scan-Engine both
> > as Free Software und GNU GPL.
>
> Monetray donationes, I agree, on the other hand, I don't see why we couldn't
> have further mirrors by donation of server/bandwidth though, for example, I
> could easily mirror the plugins on one of my servers.
Adding mirrors means work, one way or another.
This needs at least to balance with the gain.
We should raise the question:
What is the current bottleneck of the OpenVAS project?
And then spend our resources into the answer.
Best
Jan
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