Re: [ jEdit-devel ] jedit donations

[daliborp <dal...@is...>]

Ouch!
 
Now, if I would donate some money to jEdit (something/someone/...), what
would I give it for?
I would think for jEdit to get better and project stay alive. But, if admin
meeting and restaurant paying is the price for jEdit to get better than I
don't know, it seems odd to me. Me, being a free software fan for a long
time.
And your post (see below) wording makes me think of you as a bit unpolite,
not to say rude guy. I'm very sory to say so and hope I'm wrong.
 
Donations SHOULD have a purpose and clearly defined (and known) use for.
And jEdit TEAM SHOULD transparently use the money for stated purposes only.
 
Every other way of handling collected money will sooner ol later raise
questions and question one's integrity. Money tends to cause that.
 
So, decide if collecting is realy necessary or not and if so - spend it
transparently if for nothing else then simply for respecting the fact that
someone donated in best intentions.
As you, admins, DONATE your time and knowledge to jEdit project. Or are you
not donating?
 
 
 
From: Matthieu Casanova [mailto:cho...@gm...] 
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 10:09 PM
To: Alan Ezust
Cc: jEdit-devel List; Vampire
Subject: Re: [ jEdit-devel ] jedit donations
 
My opinion about that is that donnations money is something that belong to
the project admins. 
We can tell everyone what we do with them but we are not required to do so.
We can use them for hosting and things like that but we could also use them
to meet each other and pay a restaurant if we want to, it's our choice.
So I don't know what is the benefit of this conversation, it seems to be a
big waste of time.
 
Matthieu
2012/7/2 Alan Ezust <ala...@gm...>
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Jarek Czekalski
<jar...@po...> wrote:
>
> This is my last post about money. I'm a bit disgusted, because it's not me
> who started talking about money. Now the people who started money thread
> left me alone against you.
I apologize, I had a similar conversation with Vampire years ago, and
I know just about every other new admin had one too. In the end,
vampire convinced each of us that he is the right man for the job, and
since he's dealing with it, I don't have to. Which I am (still) happy
about.

For a while I thought that we should switch off donations and
encourage people to donate to individual members but after reading
this thread, I no longer feel strongly about that.

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