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

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 07/24/2013 07:33 AM, Brendan Jones wrote:
> 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.

Looks like we need to get the Fedora name out of the states

JBG