On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 02:24:11PM -0300, Thiago H de Paula Figueiredo wrote: > Hi! > > I'm an Apache Tapestry committer and PMC member and very active > specially in the mailing lists. > > I'm at a period in which I have no job, no clients and I haven't > started looking for a job again. So I have the schedule for that. > But this free time cannot be free, because I, as everyone else, have > bills to pay. So I thought it would be a perfect time to run an > fixed-funding IndieGogo campaign (Kickastart only allows USA > citizens) to have me working exclusively on the Tapestry codebase > and documentation for a month. > > If there are people actually wanting to fund that, I just didn't > want to lose the opportunity before I get some other work and I > don't have all that time to work on Tapestry itself again. Of > course, I will still contribute to the project in the mailing list > as usual and also some code, but all that on my actual free (i.e > time I'm not doing something that would earn me money or help me > find paid work). > > From the Foundation point of view, is this allowed? From a community > is it something to be avoided? I'd take a lot of care to make sure > nobody would consider this potential campaign to be blackmail, just > one way to say thank you and to help Tapestry, which has no backing > company, progress faster. > > Thanks in advance. > > Cheers!
Not an authoritative answer, but... I don't see why this would be a problem, assuming that you continued to interact with the community in the same way as before. Many contributors / committers / PMC members in projects are paid by organizations to work on those projects, so I don't personally see how this is any different. You are just being creative about how to get paid to do what you like to do anyway. Again - not authoritative. -chip
