[Mageia-discuss] keep on donate or AUFML full transparency

Thu Sep 30 00:24:59 CEST 2010

Le mercredi 29 septembre 2010 à 20:41 +0000, André Machado a écrit :
+> How much Mageia Foundation needs to start its operations?
+
+This is not a Foundation, this is a association, which is a little bit
+different from a legal point of view.
+
+And well, I think we need to pay for the domain name 
+( 12 e/y ), for the trademark ( 400e ), for the disks ( no estimate yet,
+depend on the size and the price ), for some part of the hosting ( can
+be quite cheap or not, a small server for dns/smtp/etc, cost around 20
+to 30 euros per months ). You can also add some administrative fees
+( bank account, sending letter to association members, etc ).
+
+So the bare minimum is quite low. But with it, you do not do much.
+
+With more money, well, better and more servers can be bought ( faster
+build, more services, spare hardware in case of problem ), developers
+travel and so on. For example, Opensuse have invited us to come at their
+conference in Nuremberg, but that's a little bit too far and expensive
+for me, so I guess I will have to decline. 
+
+You can also see how Mozilla foundation, or Wikimedia does and spend
+their money, but their need are far greater than ours. 
+
+Usually, this is the available funds that decide what can be done, and
+not the reverse. 
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+