Feedback on secondary architecture promotion requirements draft

Brendan Jones brendan.jones.it at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 17:26:11 UTC 2012


On 04/04/2012 03:31 PM, Jared K. Smith wrote:
> I, for one, would *love* to find a way for Fedora to be able to accept
> funds from outside groups.  I'm not complaining about Red Hat here --
> I think they've been a great corporate sponsor of the Fedora Project,
> and I don't personally see the need for the Fedora Project to distance
> itself from them.  They continue to put a lot of resources (money,
> salaried positions, legal support -- and most importantly -- trust) in
> Fedora, and I'd never suggest doing anything that might jeopardize
> that.  I would like other organizations to be able to donate money to
> Fedora too, and in an ideal world we could sell Fedora-branded items
> and have a portion of the proceeds directly benefit the project.  I
> investigated and pushed for the ability to make this happen while I
> was FPL, but the stark reality is that there's no feasible way to do
> this at the present time.  The easiest way for outside organizations
> to help Fedora is to directly provide support at FUDCons (such as
> directly paying for the catering or the internet access), or donating
> hardware to the Infrastructure team (and there are certain guidelines
> that the Infra team can share with you, if you're interested).  It's
> not an ideal situation by any stretch of the imagination, but it's the
> situation we live in right now.
>
> --
> Jared Smith

Does that mean the only cold hard cash Fedora receives is from Redhat? 
Ie. all travel allownaces etc cmoe from that support?

I was recently asked in an interview what funds we (the current Fedora 
project I'm working on) was looking for. And all I could say was peoples 
time and knowledge :(


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