Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 13:06:04 GMT From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <3509a2c2.2318713@mail.cetlink.net> In-Reply-To: <9741.889090649@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <9741.889090649@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Thu, 05 Mar 1998 10:37:29 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> wrote: >In message <3505f27d.44276580@mail.cetlink.net>, John Kelly writes: > >>I'm not asking volunteers to do anything. I'm proposing a model which >>may *possibly* attract enough money to create an organization which >>can affort to hire administrators to handle those chores, and pay the >>coders for what they do best. >> >>Think in terms of a $10,000,000 (or more) budget per year and you will >>begin to see the light. > >Quite frankly, I don't think we would be able to spend more than about >$1M/y efficiently. Anything above that would get us a lot less bang/buck. >And even $1M may be too high for our ability. In the early stages, that's probably accurate. 1,000 donations of $1,000 each is a million. Is that unrealistic to achieve? You'll never know if you don't even want to try. -- Browser war over, Mozilla now free. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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