Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Earlier this evening I was asked how I expected Fedora to function in 
any way similarly to how it does now without the backing of one or more 
organizations like Red Hat.

I gave the quick answer  "through donations" since I was not in mood to 
give the detailed answers ( and taint that thread even further ) however 
I'm about do it here to certain extent since the questioner probably did 
not expect me to have actually given this any thought which I actually 
have although I have not chiselled it into stone, making it the concrete 
proposal the community demands since it's just a small fraction of a 
larger idea or rather vision I have but I have decide it be the correct 
time to share that part of that vision of mine with the rest of the 
community to gather feedback.

Now as I see it the model to achieve this already exist there as in wild 
and is called "Crowd funding" the tricky part is altering it so it can 
be apply and implementing it into the project successfully and make it 
attractive to participate along with making our project a bit attracting 
to contributors.

Obvious we cannot have crowd funding for every moving part in Fedora 
that would just be ludicrous so we need to apply that concept upon the 
entire project, as in Fedora would be just a one crowd founded project.

Fedora as an one crowd founded project requires us to categorize divide 
and split it into tasks to prevent us from taking the ability from our 
donors, to control where their donations flows for example.
I as a donor donating $20 would like those to run to

a)  To the entire project to allocate it where it's most is needed.

b)  To a specific sub-community within the project to allocate it where 
it's most is needed.

c)  To a specific task or event within an sub-community

d)  To a specific component/project within the community to allocate it 
where it's most is needed.

e)  To a specific task ( bug fix/rfe/design bounty could/should be set 
for those ) within the component/project within the community

f)   Hosting/hardware/bandwith

g)  Swag

h)  Documentation

i)    Design

j)  <insert what you think the above does not cover >

Out of each donation we would take 10% hosting tax to ensure that we 
could afford our hosting, any excessive money to the hosting would be 
return to a) which could then allocate where it's most is needed within 
the project as well as a) could cover the hosting cost if the taxation 
itself would not cover it.

e) could be attractive to individuals between jobs, students or others 
to gain additional $$$ dollars on the side ( or re-donate if you dont 
need it ) since that bounty for the bug he/her/they fix,the RFE 
he/her/they implement or the design he,her,they create could run 
directly into his or hers or that teams pocket, making Fedora a bit more 
attractive to participate in for developers and others.

The implementation of something like the above should be in centralized 
community platform ( atleas't a part of one ) instead of it's own 
donation platform ( from my point of view )

Now something like this we could perhaps implement to begin with as 
additional funding source to our sponsor to see if and how well it takes 
off.

Thought's comment flames?
  ( this probably breaks all kinds of legal/taxing rules and regulations 
in the states regardless of it being peoples donations)

JBG