Financial Support for Lubuntu

[Ali Linx (amjjawad)]

Hi,

A lot of to discuss and there is not enough time for all of this, sad but
true :(

Long story short, shall I reply that guy that we don't have or don't accept
any financial support at the moment? shall I come up with my own version of
a standard answer? so far, personally, I got one request regarding this
issue but for this request and others in future, what is the final and the
direct answer for that? I don't want to come up with my own just like that
... I understand what has been written here but again, no time to discuss
all that, all of us are busy and I see every time we open a discussion, it
takes long time and sometimes with no final answer :( I'm blaming NO ONE
here because I know for a fact why is that ... I just want to close this
and move on to the other stuff :)

Thanks!

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Julien Lavergne <gilir at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>  Le 03/18/2012 06:13 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) a écrit :
>
>  In 16-12-2011 (still have that Email), I was asking about the Financial
> Support for Lubuntu, etc and today, I got a Private Message on Ubuntu Forum:
>
> This is the message that was sent:
>
>  ***************
>> I just had a quick question on how to support Lubuntu financially. I have
>> looked everywhere but I have not found anywhere a way to send money for
>> Lubuntu development.
>> I feel it is a good thing to pay for software even it is free.
>> Many others like LibreOffice do offer that option.
>> May be you could let me know if that is possible.
>> Thx for your help, Roman
>> ***************
>>
>
>  There are several "problems" to set up Financial support :
> - Do we, as an Ubuntu derivative, can receive financial support ? We
> depends on Ubuntu, and on some of their resources (ISO building, help from
> Canonical developpers ...), so why just take the money for us ? They
> deserve it also (at least, part of it).
> - Do we, as a distribution, can receive financial support ? We "just"
> takes some pieces from the open source world (kernel, gcc, LXDE, Xorg ...).
> so why just take the money for us ? They deserve it also
> - And finally, how to use it ? Pay people who develop ? But why not people
> who test ? Who spread the Lubuntu word ? Everyone deserve it.
>
> I'm quite uncomfortable when we talk about this. It's IMO a very sensitive
> topic.
>
> If I have to give my opinion, I'll organize it like this :
> - Give a part to other free software application we used : first LXDE,
> after Ubuntu, Debian, and other small projects (like Sylpheed,
> Gnome-Mplayer ...).
> - Keep the rest to organize events where people from Lubuntu team can work
> on Lubuntu (like hackfest, or documentation workshop etc ...).
> Problem is to find the good % for each one :)
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
>


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