From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 00:28:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA27839 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 00:28:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA27833 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 00:28:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA06864; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:27:57 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id JAA11091; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:27:19 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980303092719.58779@follo.net> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:27:19 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Poul-Henning Kamp , "John S. Dyson" Cc: Mikael Karpberg , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? References: <199803022250.RAA14700@dyson.iquest.net> <13021.888879868@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <13021.888879868@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 12:04:28AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 12:04:28AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > You're rambling some perfectly valid points as usual :-) > > We're at the point where it would really be nice to be able to go tell > the CEO "off to the bank you go, borrow some money for R&D, you may > get them back in increased revenue later. We'll need $1M over the > year. Small unmarked used notes would be best." > > Sponsors most welcome. Idea: Would it be politically possible to include a 'dontation' field in the registration, where people could key in their credit card number, expiry date and the amount they want to donate to further FreeBSD development? It should in that case include some suggestions that would tempt people to donate even if they can't donate a large amount e.g, "No amount to small, no amount to large. Certain you can't spare $10 in favour of faster SMP-developments?" If the estimated number of users is correct, and each donated $10, there'd be a cool $5M to improve FreeBSD. Eivind, who can't easily come up with the required $1M himself at the moment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message