Donations to Debian???
I have an idea that I would like to propose to the Debian Collective.
I have no care to purchase any of the Debian CD's as the network
installation and burning my own ISO's covers everything that I could
ever wish for.
But I feel that it is important that I make some contribution to the
Debian group by making some kind of donation to the core Debian.org
from time to time. Especially when I'm feeling really warm and
fuzzy about Debians performance.
I would like to ask that debian.org consider setting up a PayPal
account to accept donations.
Based on recent activities and postings, these donations could be
divided up, by the submitter, into some categories - such as:
1) Base Debian -- payments are to go toward the cost of network and
server (hardware & connectivity). Not mirrors, I think. This might
be changed a lot...
2) Package developers -- payments could be forwarded directly to
the package development team members. Example: KDE 2.2.2
development. I would suggest a fixed fee(s) on this with a
not-to-exceed value from each person to keep it at the level of
Appreciation, rather than Employment. Suggestion: Values of 1, 5,
10, 25.
3) Documentation developers -- Not the README's, but the website's
core Debian content maintainers for the installation, care and
feeding, and user manuals of Debian as it applies across the many
platforms.
My intention here is not to make Debian a $$ based organization, but
there are a lot of times that I have felt it would be kind of cool
to pop $5 off to some package maintainer who did a really great job,
or to Debian.org for just being there. I consider it reasonable for
myself to make an annual $100 donation as long as my financial
conditions allow -- but there isn't any easy place to do this.
If I have to find addresses, fill out checks and mailing envelopes,
I'm less likely to perform all of this.
Thoughts?
I'm really not sure that this isn't a serious violation to all that
is good about Debian, GPL, GNU, or Linux so please don't flame me.
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