Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> How about having a donation box. Debian is a registered charity after all.
> With a suggested donation of a couple of dollars?  I appreciate that this
> might be against the freebie policy, but would serve three purposes:
>   a) disuade people who just pick it up because it's a freebie
>   b) recoup some of the costs
>   c) have more CDs left for the needy [1](because of a)

We made about $150 in donations at LinuxWorld, completly unsolicited. That
paid for about half of our expenses.

(That money is still here with me. I've tried twice now to get someone from
SPI tell me where to mail it, with no luck. What's up with the SPI treasurer?)

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