Donations - RFC

[Jeremy White]

Hi Everyone,

Say, I've gotten in a few fairly generous donations lately,
and so the Wine fund has a bit of money (around $800, afair).

Now, the bulk of that is marked for embezzlement <g>, but
it does leave a bit left over that could go to help Wine.

The question is:  how could that money be spent effectively?

I have several thoughts on this, but would like to open it
up for discussion.

My suggestions are:
   * Buy software for proven Wine hackers
     If Wine hackers are lacking for licensed software,
     I could buy + ship it to them. My financially
     prudent side suggests that games would be a great way to
     do that, because we can buy a lot of games for $800, and
     only 1 copy of MS Office for the same price... :-/

The trouble with this idea is that the few times
     I've tried to offer software to Lionel and others
     they tell me that they have all they need.

* Sponsor Wineconf 2005
     We spent about $1500 of the Wine fund
     sponsoring some folks to travel to Wineconf this
     year.  We could similarly use the funds for the next
     Wineconf.  That suggests saving it for this purpose
     would be prudent.

Thoughts?  Suggestions?  Comments?

Cheers,

Jeremy

[Shachar Shemesh]

Jeremy White wrote:
> The trouble with this idea is that the few times
> I've tried to offer software to Lionel and others
> they tell me that they have all they need.

Didn't Lionel say in his interview that a new GPU videocard would have 
helped him get into newer areas?
> - Sponsor Wineconf 2005
> We spent about $1500 of the Wine fund
> sponsoring some folks to travel to Wineconf this
> year.  We could similarly use the funds for the next
> Wineconf.  That suggests saving it for this purpose
> would be prudent.

I like that one. Getting from the US to Cyprus can cost a little :-)

Shachar

[Lionel Ulmer]

>  The trouble with this idea is that the few times
>  I've tried to offer software to Lionel and others
>  they tell me that they have all they need.

Well, it's mostly that this is a bit of a slippery slope to start sending
stuff to some people and not others. And then, this would make me feel
obliged to hack on Wine ... and this would not be fun anymore (it's good to
be able to not send any patches for long stretches of time without remorse
:-) ).

I would say sponsoring Wineconf 2005 would be a better idea (so we could go
somewhere exotic (not that St Paul in winter was not exotic in a kinda
perverted way for most of us :-) )).

Lionel

PS: and no, do not start to send me stuff to force me hacking on Wine, it
    will not work :-)

[Shachar Shemesh]

Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> I would say sponsoring Wineconf 2005 would be a better idea (so we could go
> somewhere exotic (not that St Paul in winter was not exotic in a kinda
> perverted way for most of us :-) )).

I have volunteered to organize it in Cyprus. I've already started 
lobbying for that location. After last year's last minute "hey, it's 
more comfortable in the US" change, I decided that long term preparation 
for votes, like you do in any self-disrespecting parliament, is the only 
way to go.
>     Lionel

So can I count on your vote too? :-D

Shachar

[Tom]

Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> I have volunteered to organize it in Cyprus. I've already started 
> lobbying for that location. After last year's last minute "hey, it's 
> more comfortable in the US" change, I decided that long term 
> preparation for votes, like you do in any self-disrespecting 
> parliament, is the only way to go.

I vote for France :-)

Tom