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?
>
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> Eric Schulte
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