Hi Phil, On Thu, 18 Mar 2021, Philip Hands wrote: > I've been pondering how it might be possible to spend more of Debian's > money, and it occurred to me that we could allocate a budget to each DD > which they could spend on pretty-much anything (as long as, for Debian > funds, the expenditure is allowed under the relevant non-profit > restrictions that apply to the funds that we hold -- you could apply > your own criteria of course). > > That way you get to take advantage of the wisdom of the crowd, since > people in various areas of Debian are bound to know about things that > have been left undone for years or decades, that some targeted funding > would almost certainly sort out once and for all. I really like your idea! I wonder if there would be some infrastructure that would make it easy to describe projects and track how much money has been allocated by the various DD. I stumbled recently on opencollective.org which provides some nice tools to maintain budgets in a transparent manner while working with a fiscal sponsor to handle the administrative side. But AFAIK it has nothing to help decide how to spend the money. But if we find something usable, we could have a volunteer in charge of entering the "votes" of the DD by adjusting a Debian pledge in a open system (and have some associated ledger where the DD allocations are tracked). It could be even be open to external donors to help reach the monetary goal on a specific project. > Encouraging people to pool their budgets to fund bigger things would > hopefully result in them forming teams of mentors to oversee the work. +1 Cheers, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ The Debian Handbook: https://debian-handbook.info/get/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Debian Long Term Support: https://deb.li/LTS
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