Proposed: Funding Open Source Accounting software

Josh Berkus josh at postgresql.org
Tue May 7 17:29:38 UTC 2013


MJ,

> The problem is not my reading comprehension.  The problem is that the
> above reasoning makes no sense to me: if they're committing to do this
> work, why do they need the donations to be unrestricted?  Surely if
> the donations are insufficient funding, they need to add more funds,
> not use these funds for other work.  We should donate restricted for
> the project, not for the outcome, so it'll be usable towards it even
> if the total is insufficient.

Yes, there have been a couple of calls for making the grant restricted.
 I think that's probably the way we should go ... we'll discuss it at
the Board meeting next week.

--Josh Berkus



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