Targeted donations (Re: Fundraising in KDE)

[Philippe Cloutier]

Le 2020-10-04 à 17:05, Ingo Klöcker a écrit :
> 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.


Thank you, but my question was unfortunately unclear, so let me rephrase 
to prevent any confusion (apologies if you had already understood it the 
way I meant it): would this quantify the resources needed to process 
*each* transaction, or the set of all transactions?


>>    * What resources does this quantify? *Manpower*, or computing resources?
> Mainly personpower. (Please try to avoid non-inclusive, patriarchaic
> vocabulary.)


Thank you (but please try to avoid non-inclusive vocabulary, in 
particular if you're going to request people speaking a second language 
to avoid unspecified non-inclusive vocabulary).


>
> Regards,
> Ingo

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Philippe Cloutier
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