From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jambunathan K Subject: Re: Is anyone spending money for Org-mode? Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 10:17:20 +0530 Message-ID: <87d2hot6ef.fsf@gmail.com> References: <86zjkudjck.fsf@gmail.com> <871ty5euvc.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40769) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOK0L-00038F-VY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:46:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOK0G-0005KB-Ky for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:45:57 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-x232.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c01::232]:61096) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOK0G-0005Jp-Ci for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:45:52 -0400 Received: by mail-pb0-f50.google.com with SMTP id md12so2083475pbc.37 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:45:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Carsten Dominik's message of "Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:06:15 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: org-mode list , Eric Schulte 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 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: $66. Lets revisit the > discussion in 2 or three months. Maybe by then there will be plans for > a conference, if not, we see. > > - Carsten > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Eric Schulte > wrote: > > Here's an impractical option. I see roughly 280 different > contributors > to Org-mode. > > git log|grep "^Author"|sed 's/^.*: > //;s/<.*$//'|less|sort|uniq|less > > Maybe buy every contributor an Org-mode mug? > > -- > Eric Schulte > https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte > PGP: 0x614CA05D > >