Re: I helped improve Gnome and all I got...

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 06:47 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
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> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
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> | We've been doing this already.  That is, local groups have been doing
> | this already.  And board has been paying on a case by case basis.  See
> | recent GNOME-FR requests for example.
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> Err no no. What I meant was that instead of shipping stuff from US
> (unless it is for an US based "recognition"), how about empowering the
> local groups to do the swag according to the design and then reimbursing
> that ? Every 10 USD saved [in shipping] can turn out to be useful. This
> would also bring the silent (and invisible to community locally ?)
> contributors to the forefront and get both the local groups and them
> interacting.

Sounds useful.  Lets for example start this with one France and India
and see how it works.  Still someone needs to come up with a proposal
and work on it.  Anyone?  The proposal can be as simple as defining who
should get this swag, etc.

Thinking about it now, we need to ask for people's physical address
before we can send anything, which negates half of the fun.


> ~sankarshan
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> ps: I do know about the event funding thing (it helped us a lot) :)

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