Re: Membership dues [ was: Re: Advisory Board Letter ]

[Mike Kestner <mkestner ameritech net>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> I would like to see companies contribute by putting their engineers to
> work on GNOME, or buying a contract or two for needed things on
> sourceexchange or cosource, or hiring someone to write some docs, etc.
> Heck they could even buy T-shirts and computer case stickers for all
> the GNOME hackers.

Exactly.  I thought this effort was to legitimize the authority of the
steering committee, provide a means for charitable contribution, and an
avenue for companies to contact Gnome and show their support. Over the
past week I've watched it grow into an employer with a 6 figure budget.

Bart expressed concerns about the time he and others have been putting
into getting this started and wondering who will do that when they move
on.  I thought the concept of the foundation was to be a point of
contact, not a soliciter.  I would hope that a board of 9+ people would
be able to handle the workload.

I strongly disagree with the direction this has been heading in the last
week.

Mike