Re: Debian money
[Frans Pop]
>> 6 Fund other related projects
>>
>> a Debian Edu. Clearly good for us to do - heavily linked with
>> Debian.
>
> Not sure about that. IMO it's up to the schools and governmental
> institutions that use Debian Edu to sponsor that. However, I have
> no problem with Debian sponsoring development meetings that aim to
> work on Debian Edu, but that comes under the heading of "Fund
> developer gatherings".
Almost all expenses in the Debian Edu project are for developer
gatherings. We try to organize 7-8 gatherings a year, and the cost
per gathering is around 2500 EURO, thus giving us a yearly need for
20000 EURO. In addition to this, we buy test hardware for use at the
developer gatherings, have funded a user conference once, and funded
travel and lodging for debconf and other conferences. We funded a
Gnash developer gathering last year. The Debian Edu project is almost
out of funds, and need more donations. :)
>> b Gnash. Petter is very keen on this, but I'm not so sure. Don't
>> they have other ways to get funding? Thoughts?
>
> I don't think Debian as a project should sponsor upstream
> development. That's up to individual DDs.
A working free software implementation of the flash web plugin is a
requirement for Debian to provide a complete free software based
desktop. At the moment flash is used on so many web sites that the
common user will not accept a browser without working Flash. I
believe that should be a priority of the Debian project to provide a
complete free software desktop. And as Gnash is one of the few
projects where money will help speed up development, I believe
spending Debian money on Gnash is a good idea. Why should Debian not
sponsor upstream development for projects that are important to
Debian?
Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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