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On 12.03.2012 19:25, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:16:42AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Over the years, I've always been very surprised to see that >> there's very little money that Debian is able to get. I'm >> convinced that this situation could change with a bit of >> involvement from the DPL, and that such money could help a lot >> the project. For example, sending open letters to big companies, >> and letting them know that we do accept monetary contributions >> could help. > > Let me start by observing the obvious: attracting money is not a > goal per se; Putting them into good use for Debian is. According to > my DPL experience, we have two main chapters in Debian budget: > travel sponsoring and hardware replacement. (cc:-ing -project as that's a more general discussion not directly directed to DPL candidates but related. Maybe follow-ups should be sent there) 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. 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. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPXmK9AAoJEMcrUe6dgPNtby8P/0rYaGjV7p1yaCplMS3z3LCV +0/k8DtEb+UZO2aJ9glw54Rn9JO0NVnyHZGiKPG6oPJ0IR4G6ZXscPxk3aqk9zh+ plXQjtdtMbZ/XrFKMaLNH3d2KnIxv1gIwAj6GLtG3Op28XF7YDZLxi5viBJlY8F/ EnPL5wWQ9Bdytj5BIK9uZkLswCT9EvYGUmJ9Tfc0ONfj77/DvMh3/t/fZvXEPqDI n1UuXUwnE7h+wj9JCJ1Pc3qoZrzAqVZfzbzJdXZVjeaVDXqmTqE+Z5Sz5mo1W6Tl olhohuQRMUTnbAfj9if5rFqg98QlsW9GT9mrnnPJIsp7NAfuAE58bSnE/DNU+JAd XO06dqKGXWgdULIeRoKOWlti/dqfBREb0WP8zloNACxy1ksyJ8Da3hegV7X26Sb/ 4ZvNEHOmSDOgrOp/PoPW7H59O9QE3f8jDIVZ3VgzYIdu65VpN0II+G7szHtKqsl6 02C/0J0Pj+DuEz9Lo/voscm/CuM8/gXTkAXuG4Kd0wCWvDYYytz++jXqyq0PZabl ArWctC2N9JSwnpSnInuxiZw2MJarFOd06PXDsAqPimaSPRUz9PDRhVhrpD6xD8Ht KzsEFbOTCyUWBTeFMNFwH4vYoEJlZexC8B6fis+lSMjGMvhz5a1y2Dox3MX2SXPF e2Iwf3EJKcTkIJrzXL9r =sflz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f5e62bd.9060...@toell.net
