Fundraising in KDE

[Philippe Cloutier]

Hi Ingo,

Le 2020-09-27 à 17:29, Ingo Klöcker a écrit :
> On Sonntag, 27. September 2020 22:54:07 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>> El diumenge, 27 de setembre de 2020, a les 21:36:46 CEST, Vincent Pinon va
> escriure:
>>> As KDE eV can't allocate
>>> money to a specific project (if I understand correctly)
>> That's more a "historically has not wanted" than a "legally can't".
> As one of the auditors of accounting I'll add that tracking money that is
> allocated to a specific project will make book keeping much more complicated.
> I'm not sure whether the simple tracking of income and expenses that we
> currently do will be sufficient.
>
>> It's my hope that with the recent KDE eV board public statements about them
>> wanting to help people make out a living out of doing KDE stuff this may
>> change.
> In my opinion, paying people for doing KDE stuff (reminder: we do already pay
> quite a few people for doing important KDE stuff) is orthogonal to allocating
> money to specific projects. Complexity of book keeping would change from O(n)
> to O(n²).


Can you clarify what you mean?


> Regards,
> Ingo

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