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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<li><a href="#goal">Donations Liason Goals</a></li>
<li><a href="#charter">Donations Liason Charter</a></li>
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<h2>Project Goal</h2>
<p>As FreeBSD's userbase has grown, the number of people who want
to donate materials or funds to the Project has grown. The
Donations Liason is intended to streamline the handling of these
donations, and to ensure that they are handled in a timely and
reasonable manner.</p>
<p>More information will be available as soon as the fledgling
Donations Team works out a process. While the Donations Liason
Officer has some definite ideas on how things should be done,
these ideas should be sanity-checked by a slightly larger group
before being given to the world.</p>
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<h2>Donations Liason Charter</h2>
<p>The purpose of the Donations Liason Officer is to encourage and
guide donations according to a set of community-accepted rules.
The DLO has the following responsibilities.</p>
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<li>to establish and maintain a clear set of procedures for
handling donations.</li>
<li>to respond to donation offers in a timely manner.</li>
<li>to maintain a list of equipment and resources desired by the
FreeBSD community.</li>
<li>to coordinate donation offers with the FreeBSD developer
community.</li>
<li>to shepherd donations through the entire donation
process.</li>
<li>to coordinate a 3-4 person team to ensure that timely,
informed, and correct response is available at all times.</li>
<li>to publicly acknowledge donors and donations when the
donation is complete.</li>
<li>record the status of all loans to the Project.</li>
<li>provide open records of all donations to the FreeBSD
developer community.</li>
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