On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 04:02:57PM +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:44:07PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > At the moment, in just SPI, we have > 100k USD awaiting being spent. > > As an indication, that’s enough for a DebConf without any sponsors! > > Our donations should be spent. Be that better porter boxes, or a > > better backup service, or simply making sure our core machines are > > replaced regularly. > > Lucas and Neil, what are your opinions on spending some of that money > on frequent springs, e.g., for bug fixing? > I'm a lot more relaxed than Lucas about spending our excess money in this way. If there's an organised BSP or event, then applying to Debian through the DPL is very useful. However, I'd expect the organisers of the BSP/sprint/whatever to seek local sponsorship as well if possible. Neil --
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