On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:16:25PM +0930, Dan Shearer wrote: > It might be possible for Daniel and Jeff to have their cake and eat it > too with a bit of proposal re-engineering. If some respected developer > with communications cred was attending a GUI conference and in exchange > for LA funding commits to developing "Making Free GUIs Conform to > Government Tender Responses", with funding payment due after > *acceptance* of said document by the LA committee, now *that* would be a > pointy outcome. It would be very easy to see how that helps those LA > represents (which, I infer from various LA statements, extends to more > than their signed-up members.) And Gnome, KDE and whatnot would also get > the benefit these respected developers want to contribute in attending. I, for one, know I wouldn't be able to pay for the flights and have that sitting on my credit card (where it would have to sit), until I wrote a document and had it cleared. > Maybe Australian-based members of particular projects might be better > off asking for targetted donations to be sent to the appropriate body > (gnome.org, kde.org, samba.org etc) specifying that the amount is for > person X to be sent to conference Y (or a direct donation to the > developer naturally, but this is then much less accountable.) This still > may make sense for Australians because it is good for the health of > local free software to have well-informed, happy experts in our > timezone. How would LA paying KDE e.V. to send me to Stuttgart (for instance) be any better? That way, you have LA -> KDE e.V. -> studentflights (or whoever), as opposed to LA -> studentflights. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> "The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_, available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template
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