From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 5 15:57:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11526 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:57:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11511 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:57:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA25573; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 18:57:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 18:57:02 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: John Kelly cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. In-Reply-To: <35040d11.29515761@mail.cetlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, John Kelly wrote: > On Thu, 5 Mar 1998 20:30:07 +0000 (GMT), Terry Lambert > wrote: > > >but no voting or other crap should be employed in the decision making > >process for resource allocation; there is no room for Gerrymandering. > > Why should donors part with their money if they have no control over > getting their concerns addressed? Because they are satisfied with the recipients past performance, agree with the recipients stated goals, and trust that the donation will be used in pursuit of said goals. They understand that those directly involved have a better understanding of the needs of the organization and have no desire to micro-manage. There are two options. Donate and trust that they will do the right thing, or don't donate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message