Re: Donations to SPI vs associated projects

On Sun, 12 Jul 2015, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 07/12/2015 12:24 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> >- What are the criteria for deciding on the "and/or"?
> >- How would money be distributed among projects?
> >- What does it mean "as needed"?
>
> I think this is thinking a bit hard about it. Determining that
> criteria really should be a board decision and it could change.

Considering that SPI has some reserves now, why don't we try this
process out before changing how SPI has traditionally collected
donations?

If the procedure works, and there are people willing to use it and drive
it, great. That would be an appropriate time to change the donation
procedure or at least suggest that people donate directly to SPI because
it is funding appropriate projects with community oversight.

If it doesn't, then we haven't built up a pool of money which has no
clear purpose.

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