[Frans Pop] >> 6 Fund other related projects >> >> a Debian Edu. Clearly good for us to do - heavily linked with >> Debian. > > Not sure about that. IMO it's up to the schools and governmental > institutions that use Debian Edu to sponsor that. However, I have > no problem with Debian sponsoring development meetings that aim to > work on Debian Edu, but that comes under the heading of "Fund > developer gatherings".
Almost all expenses in the Debian Edu project are for developer gatherings. We try to organize 7-8 gatherings a year, and the cost per gathering is around 2500 EURO, thus giving us a yearly need for 20000 EURO. In addition to this, we buy test hardware for use at the developer gatherings, have funded a user conference once, and funded travel and lodging for debconf and other conferences. We funded a Gnash developer gathering last year. The Debian Edu project is almost out of funds, and need more donations. :) >> b Gnash. Petter is very keen on this, but I'm not so sure. Don't >> they have other ways to get funding? Thoughts? > > I don't think Debian as a project should sponsor upstream > development. That's up to individual DDs. A working free software implementation of the flash web plugin is a requirement for Debian to provide a complete free software based desktop. At the moment flash is used on so many web sites that the common user will not accept a browser without working Flash. I believe that should be a priority of the Debian project to provide a complete free software desktop. And as Gnash is one of the few projects where money will help speed up development, I believe spending Debian money on Gnash is a good idea. Why should Debian not sponsor upstream development for projects that are important to Debian? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
