Setting reply-to, we need to track Board issues on the FAB list where possible. On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:45:33PM +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > > Asking Fedora Board's approval to procede. Snipping to Board-specific area below... This is a worthy and interesting project, Chitlesh. [...snip...] > Though, with this exhibition strategy, I am obeying all Fedora ground > rules, I'm requesting again the usage of Fedora trademark to market > fedora and its packages. Thereby, I also like to precise there will > only be packages approved and built on our dear koji. So the trademark is to be used to present a fully 100% Fedora spin, as approved through the spins process, only on a third-party web site. Is that correct? > == Donation feature == > > Xuropa's cofounder proposes a "donation" paypal feature for which they > will take a percentage of it. I'm ok with it. My question is, is > Fedora Board you ok with it ? > > They would then collect funds and wire to "us" 85% of the proceeds > after expenses (paypal's and hardware and license costs). This may > not be very much to start, but it will build over time. However, if we > are lucky, I guess we will get $100. > > I nominate MaxSpevack to be in charge of all money transaction, since > he manages Fedora's budget already. IF we do happen to get lucky, > maybe it would be nice to use "Fedora Scholarship" to get more > contributors to FEL :) > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship A couple concerns: * The donation feature should let people know before they finalize any payment exactly what percentage is going to Fedora. * Is it possible that such a donation feature may be more trouble to track than it's actually worth? Can we do the site *without* a donation feature? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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