Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-16 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-15 02:39, Toni Mueller wrote: My personal favourite would be more, and likely more geographically diverse, Mini-Debconfs ("Bar Camp" style?). I found the one in Berlin very inspiring, and I was so far, unfortunately, unable to make it to a real DebConf. Yes. While I think it is valu

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > On 13/03/13 at 00:57 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> 3/ Buy advertising space on various media to recruit new contributors and >> lead them into our (improved) mentoring infrastructure. > > I think that we have other, better ways, to improve the project's > visibility th

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog writes: > Since both of you want examples of possible uses of money, here you have > some that I quickly came up with: > > 1/ Grant some amount of money to the release team to offer as bounties on > release blocker issues that are not going forward. While such one-off bounties wo

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog writes: > On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Moray Allan wrote: >> If there was general support then we could look at organising a >> funded program, but I would need a lot of persuasion before wanting >> to get into the question of Debian picking specific individuals to >> pay for their work w

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/03/13 at 00:39 +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:00:48AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 12/03/13 at 10:43 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > To other candidates, do you believe that we could benefit from using money > > > for other things than hardware and meeting/

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-14 Thread Toni Mueller
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:00:48AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 12/03/13 at 10:43 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > To other candidates, do you believe that we could benefit from using money > > for other things than hardware and meeting/travel reimbursment? If yes, > > what kind of things? >

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-14 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-13 02:57, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Since both of you want examples of possible uses of money, here you have some that I quickly came up with: 1/ Grant some amount of money to the release team to offer as bounties on release blocker issues that are not going forward. I wouldn't be a

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-13 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-13 09:15, Gunnar Wolf wrote: What kind of restrictions are you referring to? [...] because SPI cannot use its funds for any activity related to flying people to Cuba or transferring that money directly to Cuba. I am unaware of other such restrictions, but: Whatever is forbidden for

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-13 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 13/03/13 at 00:57 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > 3) For what kind of things? > > > > Since you are asking the question, isn't it up to you to come up with > > ideas/examples? :) I find it difficult to discuss such things in the > > gene

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:15:30AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > I am unaware of other such restrictions, but: Whatever is forbidden > for a 501(c) charity uder the USA laws, is forbidden to SPI. Right. Just a note on your example: I don't know about Postgres, but Debian does have other trusted org

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Raphael Hertzog dijo [Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:57:50AM +0100]: > Since both of you want examples of possible uses of money, here you have > some that I quickly came up with: > (...) I won't comment on them, as you are addressing our candidates, not just anybody ;-) And I don't have anything too use

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > 3) For what kind of things? > > Since you are asking the question, isn't it up to you to come up with > ideas/examples? :) I find it difficult to discuss such things in the > general case. On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Moray Allan wrote: > In fact I fear

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 12/03/13 at 10:43 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > To other candidates, do you believe that we could benefit from using money > for other things than hardware and meeting/travel reimbursment? If yes, > what kind of things? [ I replied in https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00084.html

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-12 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-12 13:19, Moray Allan wrote: Before thinking about any further examples In fact I fear that it's logically impossible for me to give examples to demonstrate my point. My claim is that I would be open to new ideas from others about spending money, and actively look for suggestions.

Re: Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-12 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-12 12:43, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Moray Allan wrote: If there was general support then we could look at organising a funded program, but I would need a lot of persuasion before wanting to get into the question of Debian picking specific individuals to pay for their

Usage of Debian's Money

2013-03-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
(starting a new thread) Hi, On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Moray Allan wrote: > If there was general support then we could look at organising a > funded program, but I would need a lot of persuasion before wanting > to get into the question of Debian picking specific individuals to > pay for their work whi