Arno Töll dijo [Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:55:25PM +0100]: > as somebody who pushed $work to donate money to Debian (i.e. via > FFIS), I always wondered about the financial merits of these > donations. As much as I am involved to work within Debian, I have no > clue what you used "our" money for. I am probably not literally > interested what for you spent the money we donated, but I think > sponsors would appreciate or be more interested to donate if they > could see in a more popular advertisement what Debian spends money for > (i.e. something more handsome than SPI board minutes) and possibly > getting little "thank you" post cards or some merchandise (e.g. a > coffee mug or a T-Shirt) as a symbolic acknowledgement of gratidude.
Well, we now have a Debian Auditor, a position that in part answers precisely that kind of queries. And also, as said earlier in the thread in d-vote, Debian's main annual expense is DebConf. DebConf *tries* not to use Debian funds and to be as completely sponsor-funded as possible. We have also published final status reports which, although maybe not cent-by-cent, include a general insight on our main money expenses — So you can think your $work helped fund some Debian people to get to the DebConf that happened in $donation_year :-} > Actually, $boss asked me the other day how to support Debian better as > he wasn't very convinced about usefulness of money donations to Debian > as he didn't get much feedback about that, other than a tax deductable > receipt. We have talked (and I mean in DebConf, that's the area of Debian I spent most of my orga-work in) about allowing this year for a better way of identifying precisely _what_ is a donor giving — As we did many years ago, we will allow sponsors to target their money to a specific target. So, i.e. we will be able to say "the conference dinner was kindly sponsored by Toell.net". Does it sound interesting? :-} -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120312221951.gg6...@gwolf.org
