Re: Proposal to use donations for a "Privoxy month"

I'm on board with this Fabian - curious to know how you'd prioritise the  
TODO list items so as to choose which few to tackle?

Ian


On Sun, 11 May 2014 09:40:59 -0400, Fabian Keil <[email protected]> wrote:

> According to the latest SPI treasurer's report, 1,010.87 USD
> earmarked for Privoxy have been donated to SPI as of 2014-02-28.
>
> That's not a lot and my theory is that the main reason for this
> is that it isn't obvious to potential donors that the donations
> somehow result in Privoxy improvements.
>
> In fact, until recently the donations weren't used at all,
> mainly because there wasn't enough money available to justify
> the not-yet-known bureaucratic overhead.
>
> As an experiment, I'd like to concentrate on working on Privoxy
> for about four weeks, spending a (relatively) significant amount
> of donations to pay some of my bills: 500 €, provided I come up
> with enough receipts SPI can accept.
>
> For various reasons this wouldn't be a salary and formally
> there would be no deliverables and obviously no (pathetic)
> hourly rate.
>
> The idea is to work on a couple of TODO list items and to put
> a "so far, donations were used for ..." section on the website.
> Hopefully this will have a noticeable affect on the amount of
> donations we get.
>
> Depending on the results, the experiment could be repeated
> after a while, maybe even with a more competitive "wage".
>
> If it doesn't work out, more than 50% percent of the current
> donations and probably a couple of unspecified TODO list items
> would be gone.
>
> If you have any objections or comments in general about this,
> please let me know by 2014-05-18.
>
> As mentioned before, I already cleared my schedule anyway,
> so if there are objections to the "spend donations" part,
> this would not affect the hosting migration (that is, if we
> decide to actually migrate).
>
> Fabian

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