On Mar 24, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
The $ the project receives goes for hardware and network connectivity.
That is not true.
Money donated to the project goes to sit in a pot. Resources that we use to do things on and with are on machines that we ( developers, centos team and contributors ) pay for, manage and run ourselves. CentOS does not subsidise or pay for any of it.
This also includes our network bills, phone bills for support calls and conf calls that we are sometimes part of and any other overhead.
How about setting up a dynamic build environment on Amazon's C2?
How about forming a formal non-profit organization around CentOS with contributors.
I'm pretty sure companies like Google and Amazon as well as a lot of big ISPs would contribute large money to keep CentOS going strong. What is needed is someone who can knock on those doors, raise those funds.
There is no reason CentOS can't be run like Wikipedia or Sourceforge. Draft a charter.
If a movement like CentOS is going to survive it's going to have to grow and the only way it can grow is by solicitating donations then depending on the offered ones it recieves now.
-Ross