Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:57:51PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:56:16PM +0000, Luca Filipozzi wrote:
> > > For me this implies that Debian should aim at having at least US$500k
> > > reserves, to be prepared if there is no large donation coming for a
> > > future refresh.
> > Plus another $300k in reserves for DebConf in case those donations don't
> > come through.
>
> we never had that.
we do have reserves at SPI; it's why SPI feels comfortable signing hotel
and venue contracts against "commited donations"
> how did we manage to survive those last >25y?
because, thankfully, the donations do come through for DebConf
and because, historically, HPE and Bytemark have donated a lot of
hardware (thanks HPE and Bdale!), no ... but this is no longer the case
--
Luca Filipozzi
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