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

[Brendan Jones]

On 07/24/2013 03:50 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> 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.
>
Under the current model I thought it is not possible to make monetary 
donations to Fedora (I remember Jared Smith saying something about this 
at a linuxconf.au a while back) Hardware, physical items, consumable 
media etc is OK though. Something to do with US taxes, correct me if I'm 
wrong.

Brendan