From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 5 01:44:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA13261 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 01:44:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA13209 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 01:43:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA09743; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 10:37:29 +0100 (CET) To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Mar 1998 00:38:07 GMT." <3505f27d.44276580@mail.cetlink.net> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 10:37:29 +0100 Message-ID: <9741.889090649@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3505f27d.44276580@mail.cetlink.net>, John Kelly writes: >I'm not asking volunteers to do anything. I'm proposing a model which >may *possibly* attract enough money to create an organization which >can affort to hire administrators to handle those chores, and pay the >coders for what they do best. > >Think in terms of a $10,000,000 (or more) budget per year and you will >begin to see the light. Quite frankly, I don't think we would be able to spend more than about $1M/y efficiently. Anything above that would get us a lot less bang/buck. And even $1M may be too high for our ability. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message