Earlier today, a forum thread was started by "Sirlurkalot" with the above subject header. [1]
The OP posted the following:
[quote] I was very happy to make the annual donation, but the option appears to have disappeared. Am I missing something ? I see it says 'Policy being reviewed' but that was back in August. [/quote]
Would one of the CentOS devs please respond to it.
Russ, I'm thinking of you. ;-) Could you please find the time?
Alan.
[1] http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=23678&forum=3...
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Alan Bartlett wrote:
Earlier today, a forum thread was started by "Sirlurkalot" with the above subject header. [1]
Would one of the CentOS devs please respond to it.
Russ, I'm thinking of you. ;-) Could you please find the time?
* nod * We have the matter of monetary donations on the docket already for an upcoming meeting already. I responded to a private query this way recently.
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A quick answer about donations to the CentOS project is:
We are also interested in doing some donations to the CentOS project, so maybe you could point me in the direction of the right person to talk to.
As to donations, the CentOS developer team have not yet re-enabled a mechanism to receive monetary donations; We have (and have had) the matter on the docket of our periodic meetings of the lead developers, and understand the desire of larger community of CentOS users to make monetary contributions. But we would rather 'get it right' than get it done fast and wrong.
Mirror, hardware, and colo/bandwidth are received through: http://wiki.centos.org/Donate
See also the link off the Donate bar at: http://www.centos.org/ which redirects to:
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=23 and an email to a monitored address at: donate.at.centos.org
-- Russ herrold 614 488 6954
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thank you, Alan
-- Russ herrold
Hey
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:12 PM, R P Herrold herrold@centos.org wrote:
Mirror, hardware, and colo/bandwidth are received through: http://wiki.centos.org/Donate
See also the link off the Donate bar at: http://www.centos.org/ which redirects to:
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=23 and an email to a monitored address at: donate.at.centos.org
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.
Cheers Didi
[1] http://wiki.centos.org/Promo/Box
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
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.
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Alan Bartlett wrote:
2009/12/9 R P Herrold herrold@centos.org:
I am unsettled by this at first read, as the location of the
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 . . .
I re-wrote my email a bit to get just the words I meant to say -- 'unsettled ... at first read' was and is designed to not imply anything more than startled by the exuberance ;)
I spent a day of my life two days ago wrestling a collection of Debian Testing into 'current' that broke a distcc compile farm, and kde. ... and I cannot stomp out ipv6 there so far.
I guess I am just a tired old dog -- All I want is for my enterprise grade OS to 'just work' so I may toil at the frontier of other matters
-- Russ herrold
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