Re: Privacy campaign funds

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 18/02/2015, Magdalen Berns <m berns thismagpie com> wrote:
> > > > > A while back we ran a $20K privacy campaign. A while later there was
> > > > > a
> > > > > discussion about what to do with the funds. Did we ever decide what
> > > > > to
> > > > > do with these?
> > > > Nope.
> > > > I proposed to fund interns to work on security and privacy related
> > > > projects
> > > > but the idea was rejected.
> > >
> > > This seems like a nice idea. Why was it rejected?
> >
> > It was not rejected, it was accepted. The vote to use some of the
> > money for an OPW intern passed on the 11th November 2014. At the end,
> > it didn't matter because Marina was able to find an external sponsor
> > for that intern.
>
> I don't want to speak for Tobias but I think it is fair to assume in this
> case that he was suggesting that "accepting" his idea would have involved
> agreeing to spend at least some the money on interns - which seems like a
> nice idea! What are the other ideas on how to spend this money?

Yes, it was agreed for some of the privacy funds to be spent on a
specific intern, but other funds became available instead. It would
have been silly to waste the newly found funds by not using them. I
mistakenly said that Marina found those funds in my previous email,
but it was in fact Karen who did that.

As per my first email in this thread, the privacy funds are being
spent on bounties for bug fixes in various areas of GNOME. I reported
to the board on the progress at the last board meeting, the minutes
from which should be published soon.