Hi Neil, On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 06:44:24PM +0000, Neil McGovern wrote: > 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. Do you think it's appropriate for these organizers to use Debian's name in seeking local sponsorship without consulting the DPL? I ask because in many cases, our "local" sponsors are the same as our "global" sponsors. From a Debian fundraising POV, I am concerned about the idea of individual DDs soliciting contributions to Debian in an uncoordinated manner, that could jeopardize our future ability to secure sponsorship from them at the global level. There have indeed been several events in the past year organized at the local/regional level that were sponsored by companies that are regular sponsors of DebConf, and while there is no evidence that this has negatively impacted DebConf fundraising (it's possible that these sponsors have increased their overall sponsorship because of the local angle, rather than it taking away from money they would've given to Debian globally), I think DDs soliciting sponsorship in Debian's name is something that should only be done with central approval. What are your thoughts on how this should be handled? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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