Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-15 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia 2014-03-13, o godz. 11:49:47 David Masterson dsmaster...@gmail.com napisaƂ(a): My suggestion would be to use the money to pay for enhancements to Org. Take a look at the list of projects for Org, find the most difficult and complex project(s), put the money into a fund to be given to the

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-15 Thread Jambunathan K
If I were you, I will segregate the funds as though the contributor - developer or otherwise - will receive it. Then, I will approach each contributor with, This is your fair share. Please receive it. If the contributor declines, I will ask the contributor How do you think I should

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-14 Thread Joost Helberg
: Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode? Date: 13-Mar-14 23:06 Hi all, one question that was asked: How much donations come in? That varies. Some month it is $10, occasionally it can be $100. What Bastien and I have done in the past is use this money in a more or less private

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-14 Thread Eric S Fraga
Eric Schulte schulte.e...@gmail.com writes: Here's an impractical option. I see roughly 280 different contributors to Org-mode. and don't forget all those that have contributed to Worg! I have no better suggestions for what to do with the monies that may come in, especially as I don't have

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-13 Thread Jambunathan K
Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com writes: I would like to pass donations Undoubtedly, to Nicolas Goaziou.

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-13 Thread Ian Barton
On 12/03/14 20:50, William Denton wrote: How much money is coming in? Might there be something that could be paid for that would be helpful, such as getting professionally done subtitles/captions on one of the videos? Or something else that's in the class of tasks that someone could volunteer

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-13 Thread David Masterson
Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com writes: Dear all, I am still receiving donations for Org-mode, even though right now I am only formally the maintainer of Org (it is very difficult to make time free for me, currently). I would like to pass donations on to someone here who has

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-13 Thread Eric Schulte
Here's an impractical option. I see roughly 280 different contributors to Org-mode. git log|grep ^Author|sed 's/^.*: //;s/.*$//'|less|sort|uniq|less Maybe buy every contributor an Org-mode mug? -- Eric Schulte https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte PGP: 0x614CA05D

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-13 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi all, one question that was asked: How much donations come in? That varies. Some month it is $10, occasionally it can be $100. What Bastien and I have done in the past is use this money in a more or less private way. I think Bastien has at some point replaced his laptop in this way, and all

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-12 Thread Joost Helberg
Carsten, back in the time when me and my friend created and sold the Snow Linux Distribution, we donated all excess money to the FSF. This was 20 years ago, but I think the FSF serves as much a purpose then as it does nowadays. regards, Joost Helberg Carsten == Carsten Dominik

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-12 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Joost Helberg jo...@snow.nl writes: back in the time when me and my friend created and sold the Snow Linux Distribution, we donated all excess money to the FSF. This was 20 years ago, but I think the FSF serves as much a purpose then as it does nowadays. Wouldn't it be a better idea to

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Carsten Dominik writes: I am still receiving donations for Org-mode, even though right now I am only formally the maintainer of Org (it is very difficult to make time free for me, currently). I would like to pass donations on to someone here who has expenses related to Org, because this does

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-12 Thread Bastien
Hi Carsten and all, Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de writes: That's an interesting problem to have... :-) FWIW I support Joost proposal to donate to the FSF. But I'd be interested to know if Emacs maintainers accept donations. If they do, I'd split donations between FSF and Emacs maintainers.

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-12 Thread Sebastien Vauban
Hello Carsten, I am still receiving donations for Org-mode, even though right now I am only formally the maintainer of Org (it is very difficult to make time free for me, currently). I would like to pass donations on to someone here who has expenses related to Org, because this does not feel

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-12 Thread Xebar Saram
+1 for Bastien for what its worth (im a relatively neewb but Bastien has been truly epic in helping new users) best Z On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Sebastien Vauban sva-n...@mygooglest.comwrote: Hello Carsten, I am still receiving donations for Org-mode, even though right now I am

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-12 Thread William Denton
How much money is coming in? Might there be something that could be paid for that would be helpful, such as getting professionally done subtitles/captions on one of the videos? Or something else that's in the class of tasks that someone could volunteer to do but if it's possible to spend a

Re: [O] Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?

2014-03-12 Thread Ilya Shlyakhter
On 3/12/14 2:14 PM, Joost Helberg wrote: back in the time when me and my friend created and sold the Snow Linux Distribution, we donated all excess money to the FSF. If people wanted to give to the FSF, they would have done it directly. I've donated to Org in the past not to defray expenses