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

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On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 09:05:40AM -0500, inode0 wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:37:09PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> >> We would need to form a financial sig that handles that.
>> >
>> > Are these people going to be paid for their efforts, since it's
>> > completely non-technical?
>>
>> Why is being non-technical related in any way to paying someone to do it?
>
> It's an administrative role. I'd assume that you'd pay somebody who's
> going to be doing this job. If not, that's fine. That's why I asked if
> it was going to be paid for, since it's a lot more work than just
> writing checks.`
>
>> > I'm a board member for my kids' summer swim league. And our treasurer
>> > has to deal with writing checks for things like buying bulk swim caps,
>> > tshirts, meet supplies, reimbursing people for purchases made for the
>> > team, etc. And for 8 weeks of her life that's a lot to do.
>> >
>> > To then ask someone to do the same all year round as a volunteer for
>> > a _much_ larger group is probably not going to happen.
>>
>> You just described a small part of what Ambassadors do now with the
>> exception of "cutting check." We do have three community members who
>> have been doing that for a long time now as well but the number who
>> are able to help in that way is limited by Red Hat's comfort level in
>> letting the community participate in making direct payments.
>
> Are they paid for their efforts?

No.

John