Re: Regarding the AbiFund

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 21:22 +0100, Robert Staudinger wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Dominic Lachowicz
> <domlachowicz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > * Does anyone want to manage the fund, in light of all this? Maybe
> > using a different service than PayPal?
> > * Should we "donate" this money to Marc and Martin's company, AbiSource, BV?
> > * Should we give this money to some of the core developers?
> > * Should we use it to purchase hardware? (do we need any?)
> > * Should we sponsor some projects that don't get accepted to GSoC?
> > * Should we donate it to some worthy non-profit? Feed the
> > children/breast cancer/whatever
> > * Etc.
> >
> > I would like to hear from at least the core developers ASAP (Tomas,
> > Marc, Martin, Robsta, Hub, Sum1). And if anyone else has a suggestion
> > for how to proceed, I appreciate your feedback.
>
> In order of (personal) preference:
>
> (1) Have AbiSource BV administer the tip jar (probably hard, because
> they are a for-profit, right?).

Officially we are (not that we made any profit, but still :)

Since this is donation money, AbiCorp would only manage the money and
not use it itself. How annoying this managing would be tax-wise I don't
know.

Just giving it to core devs or some other unrelated organisation does
not seem right to me: the people donating the money hoped it would help
AbiWord along, not the devs or someone else.

Spending it on hardware would be a good idea, but atm I don't see
blueant dying. So that seems a waste.

Sponsoring projects that were not accepted into SOC seems like a good
idea to me, *if* we think we have a worthwhile project. Another similiar
idea might be 'bug bounties', but in the past they seemed to be a bitch
to get right.

"Let it sit around in your account without accepting new money" seems
like a valid option too[1], in case our HW would die anyway. We could
also use it in case some conference would come up where we would like to
send some people (GUADEC?).

Cheers
  Marc

[1] I have a paypal account too, so it could be used as well to let it
sit around there.

> (2) Donate to non-profit. Somehow I like the idea of volunteer work
> generating donations that in turn go to non-profit. Maybe we could
> change the "donate" button to directly link to some non-profit of our
> choice and ask users who like AbiWord to send money there.
> (3) Spend it on actually really getting some developers together
> again, it's been a few years.
>
> - Rob
Received on Wed Mar 25 20:46:07 2009