On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 5:44 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Since Debian is also supporting projects for a good cause using their funds,
Do you have any examples of this? AFAIK we don't support development nor external projects using Debian funds. The only exception I can think of is helping Outreachy interns join the FLOSS community through contributing to Debian related projects. > We already have a potential developer I think it inappropriate to select the developers to reward with money in this way. Instead (once funded) the job should be posted to GCC & m68k related forums, FOSSJobs and other FLOSS paid work aggregators and the best candidate selected. > So, would -project be willing to support our cause through Debian funds? Traditionally, Debian has not used our funds to support development work, the only exceptions being Outreachy and Dunc-Tank. I think that we should keep it that way, no matter what the project is. Debian is just a small part of the FLOSS community, I think a better way to fund FLOSS development that companies don't want to touch would be a community-wide non-profit organisation (such as "The Free Software Endowment Inc.") focussed on this. Another option is crowdfunding individual projects; this has been used successfully for development (Bootlin's work on Allwinner hardware for example) so it could work for this situation too. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
