On 2009-09-09, Steve McIntyre <lea...@debian.org> wrote: > 1 New hardware / equipment > > a The DSA team have a wishlist of new hardware they'd like, along > with a set of donated machines that need configuring and/or > shipping. As far as I'm concerned, so long as the individual > requests here look reasonable then they get approved as and when > they happen. > > b Maintainers of big packages might benefit a lot if we can > loan/donate big machines to them to make things faster. Should > be an easy thing to work out - nominate such people please!
Yep. Both of them is interesting. I would personally like to be able to rebuild kde in half the time I currently spend on it. > > 2 Fund developer gatherings: > > a Teams interested in a face to face meeting to work on their part > of the project should be provided a simple way to get funding for > transport, lodging and food. Sounds like a good plan, and we're > already doing this quite a lot, including sponsorship from > various people like Extermadura. I also think this is a good idea. > 3 Legal costs > > a Pay for legal advice if needed. We have some cover for legal > advice via SPI, but we may need to ask for more than the pro bono > services might be able to give us. For some things, especially where it can free up loads of developer time, I think this is a very good idea. > 4 Marketing stuff: > > a box(es) of equipment to take to stands at various shows and > expos. Might be useful, but could be expensive. Where do we store > it/them? Who organises shipping? If there is volunteers for the two last options, I think it would be a very good move. When I have seen a debian booth at places it might have a t-shirst shop and maybe some cd's and some flyers, but normally nothing 'running' debian. When I see a KDE booth, they have 3-5 computers showing off the greatest and latest of KDE. > b ads in the media in various places? Very expensive imho, so I'm > not convinced. How much money do we spend? I don't think this is a good idea. > c marketing to new developers: posters to put up at universities? > T-shirts or other gifts for new people working on bug-fixes, > translations etc.? Could be useful, but again expensive. > Thoughts? I have sometimes felt like I wanted to show some kind of appreciation of some people doing more than I expect from them. Currently, the only "token of appreciation" I have is to thank them on my blog. > 5 Pay people to do stuff we don't/can't/won't: > 6 Fund other related projects No thanks. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
