Philip Hands dijo [Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 10:51:10AM +0200]: > It occurs to me that we could establish some sort of hardship fund to > make sure that someone who's current situation falls below some minimum > that we could define, they would be able to apply for funding. > > For example, I recently bought some refurbished Lenovo X230 laptops for > GBP 85.00 each, mostly because that seemed cheap enough that I'd be > annoyed if my own X230 breaks and I'd not taken advantage of that deal. > Also, my daughters clearly need laptops. > > If there's any DD/DM who's current hardware is more ancient than that, > then if they'd like to upgrade, but cannot afford to, it seems to me > that for a small outlay from Debian they might well be enabled to be > much more productive. That's something I would clearly agree to. And it's a very different issue from paying to perform a given task - It's reaching out and helping those that can better contribute with the project. Besides, in the example you present, they would be quite smaller expenses for the project than what I would expect for a finish-a-hard-task gig. > We've also occasionally had people who've been part of the project fall > on hard times, and I think that having the ability to quickly provide > benevolent funding to someone who's e.g. been rendered homeless somehow, > would also be something that we should try to make possible. > > Obviously, this might well bump into rules about what non-profit > organisations can do, so the details would need to be carefully worked > out. This could also work, provided it's done on an equitative basis and not based on current/recent performance - having it as a kind-of-safety-net. With some care so that's not a mechanism that can be abused. And, yes, making sure it's a legal way to spend our money (but I don't see why wouldn't it).
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