On 07/19/2010 04:24 PM, inode0 wrote: > 2010/7/19 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> On 07/19/2010 04:18 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: >>> On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 13:15 -0700, Luis Villa wrote: >>>> Note that selling things isn't necessarily just a money thing; people >>>> who have given you money and gotten swag in return have quite >>>> literally bought in, and that identification (for better or for worse) >>>> makes them more passionate advocates for what you're doing. In other >>>> words, they *want* to give you money as a form of contribution; it >>>> isn't a bad strategy to let them do that even if you don't actually >>>> need the money. >>> >>> Maybe funnel it to someone who can who we support? (FSF?) >> >> I suppose that is an option, but that tends to make things more >> complicated. What if someone likes Fedora but not the FSF (hey, it could >> happen)? > > Since we revisit this it seems every year I'd suggest just dropping > any notion of collecting money in any form until such time as someone > has something concrete worked out with legal. Otherwise it is > repeating the past ending up on the same dead-end road. To be fair, it is "finance" this blocks on, as opposed to "legal". :) ~spot _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board