<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Le 03/18/2012 06:13 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) a écrit : <blockquote cite="mid:CAAohP4uH4b1xPEH4oVK1cS2Kvfu7GTkn_ekYWLogtLOr9hJFng@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">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: <blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"> *************** 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 *************** </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> 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 </body> </html>