[gentoo-nfp] Re: Re: Re: How to improve the trustees

[gentoo-nfp] Re: Re: Re: How to improve the trustees

[Steve Long]

William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:

> I think it's kinda naive and unrealistic long term to continue to do
> these things in house. More so when we can get the needed services
> externally for next to nothing. Either way, decisions still have to be
> made, and the board will still have to do that. It's just the final
> action, and liability that will be passed on. Also IMHO makes changing
> of the guard much easier. Not to mention allows focus on other areas of
> the foundations mission.
> 
Agreed; having oversight from people with experience is useful, and so is
involving users in any area they can be useful, but yeah I favour
professional assistance; you gave better reasoning ofc. The SFC looked good to 
me; for all the talk of the size of Gentoo, as an organisation apart from the 
actual volunteer development, it isn't large.

An idea: why not allow users to pay a nominal fee, say $10 per year, to have
a "contributor" badge on the forums, with zero other benefit? Donations
aren't quite the same, since they're anonymous, and keeping a single, small
level of contribution would mean users wouldn't feel pressured by it. I'm
sure quite a few of the user base would happily stump up, including me ;)
and that'd give Gentoo a bit more money to play with.
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Re: [gentoo-nfp] Re: Re: Re: How to improve the trustees

[John Alberts]

On Feb 16, 2008 11:07 PM, Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> An idea: why not allow users to pay a nominal fee, say $10 per year, to have
> a "contributor" badge on the forums, with zero other benefit?

I think this is an excellent idea.  There should be minimal effort
needed to add this functionality to the forums and there is $0
overhead for each purchase of a badge.  It should also be possible to
subscribe using paypal, so the fee can be charged yearly.  Having two
or three levels would also be nice and have different contributor
badges for each level.  You could have a normal contributor badge,
silver, and gold.

Seems that this thread has really turned into a 'How to improve Gentoo
thread' rather than 'How to improve the trustees' thread. ;)

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Re: [gentoo-nfp] Re: Re: Re: How to improve the trustees

[William L. Thomson Jr.]

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On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 10:52 -0600, John Alberts wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2008 11:07 PM, Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > An idea: why not allow users to pay a nominal fee, say $10 per year, to have
> > a "contributor" badge on the forums, with zero other benefit?
> 
> Seems that this thread has really turned into a 'How to improve Gentoo
> thread' rather than 'How to improve the trustees' thread. ;)

Well I consider fund raising something that falls more under the
trustees than other entities. I for one would like to discuss and
explore other ways of raising funds for Gentoo. Thus listed it as a goal
in my manifesto.

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