Hi Don Am 28.02.2014 um 15:46 schrieb Donald Whytock:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Raphael Bircher <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi at all >> >> We allready talked about crowdfunding and generaly agree, that this will >> be a good idea. I will start at the next time a p'roject at a crowdfunding >> platform to rise money for a LTS Version for 4.0.2. So we can still support >> Mac OS X 10.6 downward. I plane to back port security fixes and really >> important bug fixes. The costs will be about $2000. This just for >> information. >> >> The big question is, how we handle such projects? My proposal: >> >> - Create a site with open / in programming / finished crowd funding >> projects. >> - Make a blog about it if the organizer whish that. >> Other Ideas? >> > > These crowdfunding activities would not be official acts of AOO or Apache, > right? Since (my understanding is) Apache doesn't support targeted > donations or paid development? exactly > > If they're outside/independent acts, wouldn't they be, for all practical > purposes, a subclass of third-party support vendors? You can see it like this, yes. But mainly for the start, it's important too have some help. It is a taff job anyway, to get money for AOO development. But this is also important for the ecosystem. And caring about the ecosystem is a very important job at Apache. The founding etc. is ofcourse outside ASF. The works flows maybe back to the project. Greetings Raphael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
