On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:40 PM, John Poelstra <poelstra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For example, if a company or person X wanted to help Fedora they could pay a > replicator (or whatever they are called) directly to produce all of the > media for Fedora X to be handed out events. This gets Fedora out of having > to handle the funds and allows internally allocated funds to then be used > for other purposes. > > Perhaps this would cause other accounting/reporting problems... I don't > know. I believe we have a FreeMedia project run by community that is self-sufficient and does exactly this sort of thing... or we did. But we could use funding for a lot of different things....for example travel grants to get important community developers to events. Not just Fudcons...but conferences where they can go to their peers in whatever area they work in and talk about Fedora in an effort to get new people using and contributing. An investment in travel funds so high impact people can network with a large group of potential contributors is a sure bet. As a board member, I would absolutely LOVE to be able to put forward a group of...missionaries... hand them a plane ticket and a hotel voucher and send them off into the world to convert the masses..opportunistically. Like when when the Electronics Labs Spin was first released. I was chomping at the bit to get Chitlesh out talking to engineers who use that sort of software. And there's absolutely no reason that Red Hat should be expected to do all of that sort of expensing. Other entities and individuals who grok the benefits of an expanding contributor base could chip in on that. -jef"And as always, I'm more than willing to talk to a sugar-daddy who can help me build a large enough monetary trust to create and sustain a Open Source Developer Retreat in the Alaskan wilderness, where individuals compete for residence terms like artists would do in an artist colony"spaleta _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
