On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 09:06:58AM +0200, Christian Heimes wrote:
On 21/10/2020 00.14, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 06:04:37PM +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
What I don't see is where the money's coming from. It's fine to ask, but will anyone come up with that sort of funding?
I don't think Mark is asking for you or I to fund the exercise. He's asking for the PSF to fund it.
No, he is not. Mark is asking the PSF to organize a fund raiser and keep half the money.
I think that's inaccurate. The funding.md document doesn't mention "fund raiser", it doesn't specify how the PSF is to collect the funds, and I wouldn't expect it to. The PSF has various income streams, one of which is donations, and how they collect the money for this proposal is up to them, not Mark. If the PSF decide that the best way to make the money is to have a bake sale, that's their prerogative. The *how* is not really relevant or up to us (except to the degree that some of us may be members of the PSF). And they won't be *keeping* half the money, they will be spending it on on-going maintenance. (Or at least that is Mark's expectation.) So the intent is for the money to be spent at some point, and not for general expenses, but specifically on this project. -- Steve