On 04/04/2012 03:31 PM, Jared K. Smith wrote:
I, for one, would *love* to find a way for Fedora to be able to accept funds from outside groups. I'm not complaining about Red Hat here -- I think they've been a great corporate sponsor of the Fedora Project, and I don't personally see the need for the Fedora Project to distance itself from them. They continue to put a lot of resources (money, salaried positions, legal support -- and most importantly -- trust) in Fedora, and I'd never suggest doing anything that might jeopardize that. I would like other organizations to be able to donate money to Fedora too, and in an ideal world we could sell Fedora-branded items and have a portion of the proceeds directly benefit the project. I investigated and pushed for the ability to make this happen while I was FPL, but the stark reality is that there's no feasible way to do this at the present time. The easiest way for outside organizations to help Fedora is to directly provide support at FUDCons (such as directly paying for the catering or the internet access), or donating hardware to the Infrastructure team (and there are certain guidelines that the Infra team can share with you, if you're interested). It's not an ideal situation by any stretch of the imagination, but it's the situation we live in right now. -- Jared Smith
Does that mean the only cold hard cash Fedora receives is from Redhat? Ie. all travel allownaces etc cmoe from that support?
I was recently asked in an interview what funds we (the current Fedora project I'm working on) was looking for. And all I could say was peoples time and knowledge :(
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