I think the budget needed would be in the millions, 10's of millions... that is hard to do with a gofundme page or a bake sale on an annual basis. if it only was a 100k or couple of 100k, IBM and others wouldn't care to keep it going I think, besides funding, there were organizational reasons too I believe. On 4/28/21 7:36 AM, Christopher Wensink wrote: > Speaking of financing, it's common for non-profits such as churches > and other organizations to have an annual budget review that is put > together to lay out the budget, and expenses to see how each cost is > broken down. > > Is there an equivalent budget page that annual review of expenses for > CentOS / Stream? > > If there isn't then perhaps it would be beneficial to have such a > page, something that lists out the line by line expenses, so that > everyone is aware of how expensive that maintaining a distro truly is. > > Once those numbers are known then perhaps a fundraising campaign with > a visual like a thermometer type of graphic on the right side of the > page saying our budget each year is 100k (or whatever it is, I'm > making up a number) and our fundraising so far is 12k for the year, etc. > > Thoughts? > > Chris > > On 4/28/2021 8:28 AM, R C wrote: >> you think you can fund something like that with a bake sale or so?, >> maintaining a separate distro for the same thing is VERY expensive >> >> On 4/28/21 2:08 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: >>> On 28/4/2021 10:35 π.μ., Nikolaos Milas wrote: >>> >>>> All that, in turn, are very much dependent on community involvement >>>> and project management & financing. >>> >>> By the way, I think that CentOS, before it was "absorbed" by Redhat, >>> could/might have addressed the community for fund raising, rather >>> than abandoning the project to RH, which, as others have mentioned, >>> was an unmistakable sign of upcoming CentOS EOL as we had come to >>> know it. >>> >>> If the financing need was communicated correctly, I am very >>> confident that financing would have been secured, e.g. by using a >>> public fund raising platform, due to CentOS huge install base and >>> community. >>> >>> Any of those current (or future) projects that might prove >>> successful enough to become CentOS successor (as a RHEL binary twin, >>> and not as Stream), should use the community financing model, in >>> order to avoid CentOS fate. >>> >>> My 0.01$ :) >>> >>> Nick >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >