Re: [Trisquel-users] Transparency and responsibility question in regard to GNU/Linux Trisquel

[umdhlebe]

Generally, the amount of donations decreased from 2014 to 2016. I'm not  
really surprised by this. Trisquel GNU/Linux was published in November 2014,  
and there was a lot of public attention. As a consequence, many people tried  
the distribution, and some of them donated. This trend flattened in 2015.
Also on these pages, there was a lot of activity in building a community  
around Trisquel GNU/Linux.
Steadying these efforts is a difficult but important task. This is why I was  
asking for more transparent structures. Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse ec. are  
making a lot of fuss about their conferences and community events, and they  
know why they do: It generates attentiveness and the impression that single  
users are important.
Although Trisquel has a lot of these options of participation in place, they  
are not obvious in every case. This thread shows that (1) some options are  
available but hidden, and (2) improvements can be achieved relatively fast.
Following the discussions in this forum, it also becomes obvious that  
Trisquel users are more committed to their distribution because it is so  
closely connected to the goals and standards of the FSF. To offer more  
transparent options of participating in the distribution itself could  
motivate more users to become associate members. I'm convinced that this  
would be more important than to offer a USB keychain or Freenode cloak.