Re: Question for DPL Candidates: Debian $$$
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:43:06PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
>Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>> Do you have any further ideas yourself on where we should spend our
>> money?
>
>How about paying grants to other charities to evaluate debian, to
>adapt it to meet their needs and deploy it, or to hold meetings to do
>that?
That sounds like something that *might* work, but I'd be very wary of
committing to anything without a detailed proposal. What would be your
expectation of cost, for example?
I've also had it suggested that we could/should pay for similar
evaluations for government usage around the world, but that can get
*very* expensive with no guarantee of any benefit at all.
I'll admit that I also have misgivings about just passing on to third
parties the money that donors have chosen to give to *us*. I'd rather
investigate other avenues to use the money directly within Debian, to
be frank.
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