On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:02:59AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Hi, > > this question goes to all candidates: > > The Debian Project receives quite a number of monetary donations as well > as contributions in kind via several umbrella organization like SPI, > ffis, debian.ch, etc. > > a) What do you think are valid goals to spend this money on? I'd prefer not to commit to a specific list, since there'll always be something I'll miss, but good examples include things like "holding meetings", or "buying hardware that we need but that we don't get donated". I don't think we should buy all our hardware (we have many people who are happy to donate a piece of equipment, much more so than money), and I don't think having money on the bank will harm the project in any way. > b) How would you think is a valid way to thank (hardware) contributors? That very much depends on the contributors, and on the motives for their contributions. We should probably start off by saying "Thank you for your contribution. Now is there something we can do in return?" E.g., if hardware or bandwidth donators want us to publically state their name somewhere, we can do that. If there are people who've contributed massive amounts of, er, "stuff", for years, we can probably do something more. > b) What qualifies a contributor to become a "Debian Partner"? What > qualifies a "Debian Partner"? I don't think we have a formal list of "Debian Partners" (but I could be wrong). I'm also not convinced we need one. If we do have such a list that I'm not aware of, it might be a good idea to see if it's working well. I don't think I'll be working much in this area, however. -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html
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