[Debian-sponsors-discuss] Moving proposals to consensus, and starting next round.

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Stefano Zacchiroli 

> > [2] - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-sponsors-discuss/Week-of-Mon-20130304/000006.html
> 
> It is /not/ about setting up a new foundation, in the fiscal sponsoring
> sense. It is rather about the model, where contributions by sponsors are
> measured, made visible to give back to the sponsors, and put into some
> sort of competition between them to be the highest sponsor. Also
> donations are attached top an expiry date, so that year after year
> sponsors have to donate again to remain in the same category, providing
> to the underlying project some sort of stability on the income front.
> That also allows to set fund-raising goals year after year, and be
> public about that (think about the wikipedia progress bar or freebsd's
> thermometer). All this works for both corporate sponsors and for
> individual donors (an example of category system for the latter is FSF's
> "Thank GNU" system).

This is a good summary of what I think we should aim for (and how).

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