From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-05-14T05:54:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Central, Inc. Donation and Pledge Site (including RubyConf sponsorship)

Hi --

On Sat, 14 May 2005, Friday wrote:

> Can we have at least partial control over how our donation is spent?
>
> It would be nice to allocate x% of our donation to go to specific projects we 
> value and have the remaining y% decided by Ruby Central. To keep things 
> simple, x and y can be 50% each.
>
> For example, it might be attractive for people to be able to say, "here's 
> $250, I'd like a portion of it to fund bounties for ruby-dl2, wxruby-swig, or 
> rubygems."

That isn't really practical, partly because it presupposes a
particular kind of program ("bounties" in your example, but it could
be almost anything) which may or may not be something we're involved
in (or want to be, or even can be, involved in), and partly because
from an adminstrative perspective it would potentially mean having to
organize and set up a new program for every donation that came in.

But if you're interested in funding a specific initiative, please
contact us and we may well be able to develop a way to do it.


David

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David A. Black
dblack@wobblini.net