2009/12/9 R P Herrold herrold@centos.org:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote:
Something the promo team has been doing for a while is selling stuff under [1]
So if you want a shirt or similar that is the place to look.
The page is all of five days old, and the 'promo team money box and used to help CentOS' was unknown to me. Additionally the use of an outside (non-centos) email address to receive monies is not something that has been brought to, nor approved by the dev team.
I am unsettled by this at first read, as the location of the content carries the implicit approval of being in on a moderated part of 'centos.org', compared, contra, to the ad hoc 'fan boi' enthusiasm, boosterism and advocacy, the forum, mailing list and their archives, and the newsletter [over which no editorial control is exercised by the dev team]).
I'll add a review of this to the next dev team agenda for the team to discuss the matter.
-- Russ herrold
Russ,
I also share your concern, though I'm sure Didi and the members of that SIG (?) mean no harm. I suspect that the message was sent to this thread in a burst of enthusiasm . . .
As you have said previously, the entire realm of donations needs to be configured correctly -- be it financial or otherwise.
Alan.