<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at">e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

Mmm, personally I&#39;d say that at least a third of Sugar Labs&#39; budget<br>
should go towards actual development.<br>
<br>
All of that traveling and outreach becomes somewhat of a moot point<br>
when the actual platform we&#39;re building a community around and<br>
marketing doesn&#39;t work as advertised/expected.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Paying developers who used to work pro bono can reduce total output, counterintuitively. See <a href="http://mako.cc/writing/funding_volunteers/funding_volunteers.html">http://mako.cc/writing/funding_volunteers/funding_volunteers.html </a>and <a href="http://wiki.mako.cc/Crowding_out">http://wiki.mako.cc/Crowding_out.</a></div>

</div>-- <br>Luke Faraone<br><a href="http://luke.faraone.cc">http://luke.faraone.cc</a><br>