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<font face="Arial">I really think we must get into "self protection"
mode</font>
<blockquote> "Compensation to Mozilla for Infrastructure and Support<br>
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A portion of the collected funds could be used to offset some of
the subsidy that Mozilla currently gives indirectly to Thunderbird
by providing build, release, and tracking infrastructure."<br>
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<font face="Arial">It might be way down the road that we could do
any payback.<br>
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We need to reconnect with the user base</font>.<br>
The problem is a lack of confidence in the future of TB, by that
base.<br>
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I know we can't fix every whim of the community, but we should show
the effort.<br>
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Get that confidence back (with bug fixes, not necessarily feature),
and we will get all the donations that we need.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/29/2013 7:50 PM, Kent James
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:5299365D.7040303@caspia.com" type="cite">I
have now put a page up on the Mozilla Wiki that describes the
donation link proposal: <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Donations_Proposal">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Donations_Proposal</a>
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<br>
That page includes a list of people who, as far as I can tell,
should be approving this. I'll be preparing an email to all of
those people asking that they review the proposal after a few more
days of comments or recommended edits from the community. <br>
<br>
:rkent <br>
<br>
(Not real happy with the link name, but after I created it I could
not figure out how to rename it). <br>
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