Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:37:35AM +0700, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > >> b) What qualifies a contributor to become a "Debian Partner"? What > >>    qualifies a "Debian Partner"? > > > > I don't think we have a formal list of "Debian Partners" (bu

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> b) What qualifies a contributor to become a "Debian Partner"? What >>    qualifies a "Debian Partner"? > > I don't think we have a formal list of "Debian Partners" (but I could be > wrong). I'm also not convinced we need one. > > If we do

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:13:02PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > SPI's Treasurer, Michael Schultheiss, (and by the way Debian Developer) > does a really good job by sending out monthly Treasurer's Reports which > are in every monthly meeting minutes linked from > http://www.spi-inc.org/corpora

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:02:59AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Hi, > > this question goes to all candidates: > > The Debian Project receives quite a number of monetary donations as well > as contributions in kind via several umbrella organization like SPI, > ffis, debian.ch, etc. > > a)

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-15 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 22:10:30 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > - it is not easy enough accessible to DDs (I know, it is enough to > become a SPI member and subscribe to the list, but I still believe it > should be _easier_, e.g. a directory somewhere with archived .txt > files acces

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-14 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar writes: > At [0] AJ wrote that Martin Michlmayr spoke to Linux Australia about it > holding money/donations for Debian. So, potentially, LA may/will have > Debian money. Thanks, this was news to me - and shows that I should have posted the list already in 2006... -- * Su

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-14 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:36:41AM +, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: >The list of organizations I'm aware of having Debian monies is: > >Associação SoftwareLivre.org (Brazil) >Associazione Software Libero (Italy) >Debian UK >Debian Switzerland >Linux-Aktivaattori (Finland) >SPI >Verein zur Förderung Frei

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-14 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Kalle Kivimaa writes: > I don't think it is too much of a burden for a Debian volunteer to send > out quarterly or even monthly emails and then collate the answers. But > it might be a burden to the trustee organizations. But the only way to > find out is to ask, of course :) Forgot to add: track

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-14 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > As I wrote before, one thing is a desiderata, one thing is what you can > get given the available work forces. Given that you've just stepped > back from the position (which, honestly, I forgot we had), the first > obvious step is now finding a new volunteer for the p

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 01:59:18PM +, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > It isn't that difficult, the only thing that needs to happen is for the > Debian Auditor to do his/her job regularily. Of course, if we want eg. > quarterly reports, then it might add additional burden on the various > treasureres of

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-14 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > or not. Note that achieving that is not necessarily easy: it probably > involves more work on the shoulders of various treasurers and we should > be ready to help out with that, if it is a blocker. It isn't that difficult, the only thing that needs to happen is for t

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:02:59AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > a) What do you think are valid goals to spend this money on? I believe the driving principle should be to use money as much as possible to keep the project running at its best, while keeping an emergency reserve (e.g. to be sure

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > The Debian Project receives quite a number of monetary donations as well > as contributions in kind via several umbrella organization like SPI, > ffis, debian.ch, etc. > > a) What do you think are valid goals to spend this money on? I'v

Re: Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:02:59AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas a écrit : > > The Debian Project receives quite a number of monetary donations as well > as contributions in kind via several umbrella organization like SPI, > ffis, debian.ch, etc. > > a) What do you think are valid goals to spend thi

Question to all Candidates: Project Funds and donations

2010-03-12 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, this question goes to all candidates: The Debian Project receives quite a number of monetary donations as well as contributions in kind via several umbrella organization like SPI, ffis, debian.ch, etc. a) What do you think are valid goals to spend this money on? b) How would you think is a