<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Delirium <delirium@hackish.org></I></B> wrote:
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<P>Andrew Lih wrote:<BR><BR>>It is standard for Trustees to be compensated for travel to convene<BR>>Board meetings, and this would be exactly that. This should not be<BR>>construed to endorse the other things discussed recently, such as<BR>>phone calls, broadband, etc. That should be decided with full careful<BR>>discussion.<BR>><BR>>However, having served on boards of other US-based nonprofits, paying<BR>>expenses for convening Board of Trustees is a normal practice. I hope<BR>>it can be agreed upon rather quickly that laying out this expense of<BR>>less than 400 euros is money well spent.<BR>> <BR>><BR>I don't think it'd be money well-spent, and the fact that other US-based <BR>nonprofits do not spend their money wisely (a well-known fact, that <BR>occasionally results in some public outrage in specific egregious <BR>instances) isn't really a good justification for it.<BR><BR>If I were to think of what we should spend money on that we're not
<BR>spending money on, there's a million things that are better options. <BR>The immediate one is some sort of bounty system to pay for software <BR>improvements or configuration improvements that are beyond the scope or <BR>interest of the people doing our so-far-volunteer development work. As <BR>someone mentioned on the wiki-tech list recently, throwing more hardware <BR>at the problem isn't always the best solution, although we do also <BR>undoubtedly need more hardware (and will need even more by the end of <BR>the year).<BR><BR>So if we're going to start spending money on various things, I'd propose <BR>the first thing we do with a spare 400 euro is identify four important <BR>software changes that need to be made, and put bounties on 100 euro on <BR>each of them.<BR><BR>-Mark<BR><BR>----------------------</P>
<P>In considering paying developers to stimulate them to work more, while covering our costs is seen by you as a complete loss of money with no good foreseeable justification, you are being plain rude to both Angela and I.</P>
<P>If we are to use our energy, our time and now even our personal money on this project, I think we can expect perhaps a little bit of politness, recognition and appreciation for the work we do. </P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p>
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