2009/12/9 R P Herrold <herrold at 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. > >> [1] http://wiki.centos.org/Promo/Box > > 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.