On 2/19/21 11:55 PM, Steve Holden wrote:
The PSF needs needs sufficient money to hire a couple of people, so the
PSF can turn release management and security maintenance from unpaid
volunteers into paid fulltime jobs.
Oh, is that all? Sustainability of the PSF, as has been shown over its
20 years of existence, is not an easy thing to achieve. It was hit by
the financial crisis in 2008 and again by the coronavirus crisis last
year, both things that affected all foundations.
If you plan to bring this kind of money in and rely on it, you have to
ensure it comes from sources that can't just be switched off when
budgets tighten. It could be done, but "easy" sounds like exaggeration
to me. Unless your suggestions were joking, but I saw no smiley ...
Steve's comments probably need no reinforcement, but I can speak as
someone who's been funded by fees collected from motivated companies,
and had the tap turn off. In my cases (more than one) they were
consortia where the members committed a set fee yearly, and then one
year: we've decided not to renew, from one or more... It's actually
easier to raise funds for a one-time campaign than one that is committed
to last for several years, in my limited experience on the fund-raising
side.
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