Moving back onto the list after some private discussion.
>From my point of view, I am not sure how much of this can be easily
solved by throwing money at the problem, unless hiring tech writers is
something the project as a whole considers a valid use of our money.
(I am, entirely unconvinced tha
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:43:06PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
>Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> Do you have any further ideas yourself on where we should spend our
>> money?
>
>How about paying grants to other charities to evaluate debian, to
>adapt it to meet their needs and deploy it, or to hold meetings to d
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 02:28:21AM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:15:02PM +, Mark Brown wrote:
> > This is also an issue in some other industries for things like the PCI
> > DSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_DSS), FWIW.
> Taken with a grain of salt, but I can
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:15:02PM +, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:58:02PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
>
> > Use of debian seems to be limited because it isn't on any approved
> > lists and charties can't get funding for an independent evaluation at
> > the moment. Would you suppor
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:58:02PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
> Use of debian seems to be limited because it isn't on any approved
> lists and charties can't get funding for an independent evaluation at
> the moment. Would you support using donations to fund one or both of
> those?
This is also an iss
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:58:02PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
> As I understand it, charities currently pick their operating system
> by either doing an independent evaluation (an old guide of that sort
> of style from when I last worked for a non-profit is at
> http://www.volresource.org.uk/swit/select.
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:43:06PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
> > paying grants to other charities to evaluate debian,
>
> What does this mean? Paying someone to "evaluate" debian? I don't get
> this ...
As I understand it, charities currently pick their operating system by
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:43:06PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
> Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > Do you have any further ideas yourself on where we should spend our
> > money?
> How about
I don't get much of the actual payment you are proposing to do, let's
see.
> paying grants to other charities to evaluate
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Do you have any further ideas yourself on where we should spend our
> money?
How about paying grants to other charities to evaluate debian, to
adapt it to meet their needs and deploy it, or to hold meetings to do
that?
I was at a meeting for local voluntary and community
Neil McGovern writes:
> Except I'm not sure this would be legal under non-profit law, unless
> you're very careful. There's an issue that funds can't be used to pay
> someone the equivilent of a 'wage' in this way.
US non-profits can hire employees, but I believe there are conflict of
interest l
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:50:52AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Other potential usages of Debian moneys are bounties, to which I'm not
> opposed in principle. However, they should obey to very specific
> rules. The first one is that no one already contributing to Debian
> should be authorized
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:59:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> 3 - Should these decisions be made by the DPL acting alone, or
> should that be left to the project membership deciding
> collectively?
Hi Manoj,
For many of the expenses, I'm happy to leave it up to the
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:24:29PM +, Joseph Nahmias wrote:
>Hello Steve, Luk, and Zak!
Hi Joseph!
>Having just particpated in the latest SPI board meeting, I've learned
>that The Debian Project currently has over 125k USD in reserve. This
>amount (even setting aside the recent 30k debconf9
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 01:26:08PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> I don't think bounties are the answer. I agree however that money
> could possibly be spent on tasks where we find no volunteer for.
Which is my precise position (look at the two conditions I've posed)
... or else I'm not getting the dis
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:24:29PM +, Joseph Nahmias wrote:
>> 2 - How should funds above that level be allocated?
> Other potential usages of Debian moneys are bounties, to which I'm not
> opposed in principle. However, they should obey to very specific
> rule
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18 2009, Joseph Nahmias wrote:
>
>
>> 1 - What is an appropriate reserve level for the project?
>>
>> 2 - How should funds above that level be allocated?
>
> 3 - Should these decisions be made by the DPL acting alone, or
> should that
Joseph Nahmias wrote:
> Hello Steve, Luk, and Zack!
Hi Joseph
> Having just particpated in the latest SPI board meeting, I've learned
> that The Debian Project currently has over 125k USD in reserve. This
> amount (even setting aside the recent 30k debconf9 sponsorship by HP)
> seems to be at a
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:59:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 3 - Should these decisions be made by the DPL acting alone, or
> should that be left to the project membership deciding
> collectively?
I believe the decision should remain, as the default, a DPL priorit
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:24:29PM +, Joseph Nahmias wrote:
> Hello Steve, Luk, and Zak!
Argh, "Zack", with 'c' and 'k' :-) SCNR
> Having just particpated in the latest SPI board meeting, I've
> learned that The Debian Project currently has over 125k USD in
> reserve. This amount (even setti
On Wed, Mar 18 2009, Joseph Nahmias wrote:
> 1 - What is an appropriate reserve level for the project?
>
> 2 - How should funds above that level be allocated?
3 - Should these decisions be made by the DPL acting alone, or
should that be left to the project membership deci
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