On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com>wrote:
> 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 > You should be clear that this is something you are doing as an independent person and not linked and/or on behalf of Apache or Apache Tapestry. -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
