I think the budget needed would be in the millions, 10's of millions...
that is hard to do with a gofundme page or a bake sale on an annual
basis. if it only was a 100k or couple of 100k, IBM and others
wouldn't care to keep it going I think, besides funding, there were
organizational reasons too I believe.
On 4/28/21 7:36 AM, Christopher Wensink wrote:
Speaking of financing, it's common for non-profits such as churches
and other organizations to have an annual budget review that is put
together to lay out the budget, and expenses to see how each cost is
broken down.
Is there an equivalent budget page that annual review of expenses for
CentOS / Stream?
If there isn't then perhaps it would be beneficial to have such a
page, something that lists out the line by line expenses, so that
everyone is aware of how expensive that maintaining a distro truly is.
Once those numbers are known then perhaps a fundraising campaign with
a visual like a thermometer type of graphic on the right side of the
page saying our budget each year is 100k (or whatever it is, I'm
making up a number) and our fundraising so far is 12k for the year, etc.
Thoughts?
Chris
On 4/28/2021 8:28 AM, R C wrote:
you think you can fund something like that with a bake sale or so?,
maintaining a separate distro for the same thing is VERY expensive
On 4/28/21 2:08 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote:
On 28/4/2021 10:35 π.μ., Nikolaos Milas wrote:
All that, in turn, are very much dependent on community involvement
and project management & financing.
By the way, I think that CentOS, before it was "absorbed" by Redhat,
could/might have addressed the community for fund raising, rather
than abandoning the project to RH, which, as others have mentioned,
was an unmistakable sign of upcoming CentOS EOL as we had come to
know it.
If the financing need was communicated correctly, I am very
confident that financing would have been secured, e.g. by using a
public fund raising platform, due to CentOS huge install base and
community.
Any of those current (or future) projects that might prove
successful enough to become CentOS successor (as a RHEL binary twin,
and not as Stream), should use the community financing model, in
order to avoid CentOS fate.
My 0.01$ :)
Nick
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