Announcement of Dunc-Tank.org

[Posted September 19, 2006 by ris]

Dunc-Tank.org has announced its first fund-raising experiment: collecting donations to help Debian GNU/Linux 4.0, codenamed etch, be released on schedule on the 4th of December, 2006. "Dunc-Tank.org aims to support Debian's efforts to meet its release schedule for etch by financially supporting the volunteers working on managing the release process, allowing them to devote their full attention to that task. The experiment's initial goal is to be able to raise enough funds to pay both release managers enough to work exclusively on the release of etch for a month each, having Steve Langasek available full-time during October and Andreas Barth available full-time during November, with the release expected to follow soon after in the first week of December."

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a steep amount of donation...

Posted Sep 20, 2006 15:10 UTC (Wed) by pyxis (guest, #15886) [Link] (1 responses)

from the page http://www.dunc-tank.org/contribute.html I read:
Pledges of between $100 and $1000 may be made by emailing pledge-etch-release@dunc-tank.org

Why can't I donate $25 ???

Please, enlighten me...

a steep amount of donation...

Posted Sep 20, 2006 17:43 UTC (Wed) by emacsite (guest, #40627) [Link]

It looks like this has just been updated :
Pledges may be made by emailing pledge-etch-release@dunc-tank.org.

Refund if aim failed?

Posted Sep 26, 2006 2:17 UTC (Tue) by kernelcoder (guest, #40751) [Link]

They say the aim is 'To release etch on December 4th, 2006' and list criteria and action.'

When the aim is not reached, will we donators get the money back?