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

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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:04 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Brendan Jones
> <brendan.jones.it at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 07/25/2013 12:11 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 16:50 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 07/24/2013 04:40 PM, inode0 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:07 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
>>>>> <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> The entire budget is not public so you won't get a definitive answer
>>>>> for a large portion of the budget.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why is it not public any reason why we the community cannot know how
>>>> much we cost?
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think there's any particular reason, but one thing is that it's
>>> not particularly obvious even within Red Hat: there isn't a single nice
>>> clear Fedora Budget, money gets spent on Fedora out of all sorts of
>>> other budgets. It may well be the case that *Red Hat* does not know
>>> precisely how much money Red Hat spends on Fedora. :)
>>>
>> I contribute regularly to opensource projects (monetarily) with no issue.
>> While I take JBG's anti-RH implications with a grain of salt, he has
>> highlighted a lacking there. It *should* be easier to contribute, although I
>> cannot see this happening if Fedora is a legal entity resides state-side.
>>
>> To clarify, I think RH is an awesome sponsor, and the resources they provide
>> do separate us from other distros, and for that I am grateful, BUT there
>> needs to be another way to contribute
>
> Well there are ways ... you can contribute code its not money but it
> helps. If you really want to spend money
> and for some legal reason it cannot be done easily you can do it
> indirectly by purchasing RH's products / services.

Also anyone can purchase things for Fedora directly. So if anyone
would like to pay for 500 t-shirts we'd be most grateful. This tends
to be a little awkward to execute in the real world though since
paying bills directly for another party is messier than just giving
the other party the money to pay the bills with themselves.

John