From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is anyone spending money for Org-mode?
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 10:17:20 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2hot6ef.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADn3Z2JTO9eY2MfjgvPstv9eABqecGs4bTqMWix8nUdD9CmH5w@mail.gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:06:15 +0100")
If I were you, I will segregate the funds as though the contributor -
developer or otherwise - will receive it.
Then, I will approach each contributor with,
This is your fair share. Please receive it. If the contributor
declines, I will ask the contributor "How do you think I should
deploy your fair share?"
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> one question that was asked: How much donations come in? That varies.
> Some month it is $10, occasionally it can be $100.
>
> What Bastien and I have done in the past is use this money in a more
> or less private way. I think Bastien has at some point replaced his
> laptop in this way, and all in all I have done the same, I think. This
> felt OK previously, but it is not longer the right thing as far as I
> am concerned.
>
> I have seen a few good ideas here.
>
> 1. Send it to the FSF. That is a possibility, but lets first try to do
> something more Org specific
>
> 2. A Mug for every contributor. Stretches the available budget, and is
> work.
> We could make a list of contributors and start from the most commits
> or something.
>
> 3. Help organise a conference. That would be a very good goal. Are
> there any plans to organise a conference?
>
> 4. Redistribute to the most active developers for lighting up their
> day.
>
> I propose the following: Starting March 1, I will report here the
> donations I get once a month, and we will keep track of it and find a
> good way to spend it. So far this month: $66. Lets revisit the
> discussion in 2 or three months. Maybe by then there will be plans for
> a conference, if not, we see.
>
> - Carsten
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Here's an impractical option. I see roughly 280 different
> contributors
> to Org-mode.
>
> git log|grep "^Author"|sed 's/^.*:
> //;s/<.*$//'|less|sort|uniq|less
>
> Maybe buy every contributor an Org-mode mug?
>
> --
> Eric Schulte
> https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
> PGP: 0x614CA05D
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-14 4:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-12 17:53 Is anyone spending money for Org-mode? Carsten Dominik
2014-03-12 18:14 ` Joost Helberg
2014-03-12 18:25 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-03-12 21:17 ` Ilya Shlyakhter
2014-03-12 18:30 ` Achim Gratz
2014-03-12 18:37 ` Bastien
2014-03-12 19:32 ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-03-12 20:22 ` Xebar Saram
2014-03-12 20:50 ` William Denton
2014-03-13 10:03 ` Ian Barton
2014-03-13 2:34 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-13 18:49 ` David Masterson
2014-03-13 19:55 ` Eric Schulte
2014-03-13 22:06 ` Carsten Dominik
2014-03-14 8:31 ` Joost Helberg
2014-03-15 4:47 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2014-03-14 8:21 ` Eric S Fraga
2014-03-15 10:31 ` Marcin Borkowski
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