Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 12:03:28 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <199803050103.MAA19812@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3505f27d.44276580@mail.cetlink.net> from John Kelly at "Mar 5, 98 00:38:07 am"
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John Kelly wrote: > You're just not getting it, because you're still thinking small. > > 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. Now think in terms of the human resources and infrastructure required to manage such cash flow. With FreeBSD currently a volunteer project, the management responsibilities are assigned to core members and possibly delegated by them, at their discretion. When you start "thinking big", the first thing you do is to break the current management model. You asked why Jordan is "king" of FreeBSD. My perspective is: he's earned that (implied) title. I attribute a lot of the success of FreeBSD to those individuals who have earnt our respect by contributing. I don't want to see any change that might affect their involvement. Expecting them to manage a funded organisation is unreasonable. And expecting them to stand back while others step in to manage FreeBSD, that's unreasonable too, IMO. I like the concept where companies like WC, NCI and Whistle pay FreeBSD developers to work on what suits them. They take the management load, and we benefit, without any real cost. Many of us (particularly me 8-) would jump at the chance to work in this way. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org; jb@freebsd.org CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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