Funds ear-marked for a non-profit [LWN.net]

Funds ear-marked for a non-profit

Posted Feb 17, 2011 13:28 UTC (Thu) by sladen (guest, #27402)
In reply to: Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World) by jzb
Parent article: Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)

Zonker: much as I am reticent to inject mere facts into the discussion:

foundation.gnome.org/finance/ of which the most recent I can see is:
foundation.gnome.org/finance/GNOME2009-budget-with-actuals.ods

There are three donors listed above the $20,000-mark. Google, Intel and some outfit in based in the Isle-of-Man.

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Funds ear-marked for a non-profit

Posted Feb 17, 2011 13:36 UTC (Thu) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link] (1 responses)

If you read the original article, I did give Canonical credit for being a GNOME sponsor. (The budget doesn't quite concur with what I remember Novell spending on GNOME-related activities, but that's another story.)

The hand that refills the cookie jar / New events box host

Posted Feb 19, 2011 12:25 UTC (Sat) by sladen (guest, #27402) [Link]

It was more about the "hand in the cookie jar" implication... if the hand is indeed there, it is perhaps because that hand is refilling the GNOME cookie jar! It certainly looks that way with a figure of 75% out (if that is indeed the case) that magically puts 2002,000% back in!

A lot of people end up reading an article; and many other articles get written as a result. That's a massive reach and the number of comments here reflects that. At the moment the (new) (replacement) GNOME European Events box could benefit from a new homethe former was graciously hosted by Openismus GmbH in Berlin for many years.

Perhaps you could spread the message in your next piece? It would positively contribute to GNOME and ultimately sharing the workload. Not everything need be about monetary contributions, most frequently it is the time and space that a person or company can volunteer or contributethis is just such an opportunity to back GNOME and it would be useful if you could spread the message.