Targeted donations (Re: Fundraising in KDE)

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sonntag, 4. Oktober 2020 18:43:42 CEST Philippe Cloutier wrote:
> Le 2020-10-04 à 11:58, Ingo Klöcker a écrit :
> > Currently we have a single big bucket for our money. All money that comes
> > in (e.g. several thousand PayPal donations per year) goes into this
> > bucket. All money that we spend is taken from this bucket. That's as
> > simple as it gets.
> > 
> > If we would allow targeted donations then we would have to sort all
> > donations into multiple buckets. And all of our expenses would need to be
> > taken from the correct buckets. Additionally, our contractors (e.g. our
> > marketing contractors) would probably need to start tracking how much
> > time they spend for a specific project (if we have a bucket for it), so
> > that we can pay them from the right buckets.
> > 
> > So, maybe it's more a change from O(1) to O(n*m) where n is the number of
> > transactions and m is the number of different buckets.
> 
> Thank you, that is much clearer (and way more sensical). I still don't
> fully understand though;
> 
>   * Would this quantify the resources needed to process a *single*
>     transaction, or what?

No, all of them.

>   * What resources does this quantify? *Manpower*, or computing resources?

Mainly personpower. (Please try to avoid non-inclusive, patriarchaic 
vocabulary.)

Regards,
Ingo
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