Re: LinuxCentral CDROM
In message <[🔎] 19980908095806.06165@wi.leidenuniv.nl>, jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl
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>I'm not the expert on Debian's finances, but here's my understanding.
>Nils, please correct me where I'm wrong.
>
Nothing to correct :)
>On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:14:45PM -0700, ... wrote:
>> I was about to place an order for the 3 CD set of Debian 2.0 from
>> Linux Central and noticed that you can donate $5 of your purchase towards
>> the Debian project. I was wondering, who gets this money? Is it SPI?
>
>Yes. With the recent changes in the SPI board, all board members of SPI are
>active Debian developers. SPI was originally set up to handle legal and
>financial aspects of Debian, and possibly other projects, and that's what it
>is doing.
>
The money goes to SPI and is put into a Debian account. CD vendors
regularly send checks for the donations they receive.
>> Does it go to pay for servers/bandwith for the main HTTP/FTP sites?
>
>As far as I know, all bandwith is donated, as well as the servers to a large
>degree. The money is used for a lot of different things, including
>- domain registration fees for debian.org
>- some hardware acquisitions
>- hiring booth space on Linux related trade shows
>- membership costs for Linux International
>and probably lots of other similiar things.
>
Those are all the costs that I have seen SPI spend money on so far, and at
times donations to help other projects out.
Nils.
>HTH,
>Ray
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