Very nice work, congratulations and thanks for the work to get this done! On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:24, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > I'm happy to announce that Drizzle is now an Associated Project at the > SPI. This means a number of things, one of which is that starting > today it is possible to make donations (tax-deductible in US) to > Drizzle project. > > Patrick/someone, can this also be posted to Drizzle blog. Thx. > > **************************************************************** > Drizzle joins Software in the Public Interest, can take > (tax-deductible) donations > > Since it's inception in 2008 Drizzle has taken the approach of an open > source community project. It's been run as a meritocracy by its > developer community, with developers from various companies and just > individuals. Even though at first Sun and then Rackspace did sponsor a > core team to work full time on the project, the project is not owned > by any particular company, but Drizzle is developed by a vibrant and > diverse community. We've been proud to have between 20-40 active > contributors each month. > > With the first stable release in March 2011, interest in the project > grew. At this point we also decided it was time to solidify and > clarify the status of the project as a non-profit community project. > Out of a couple options available, we chose to become an Associated > Project at the <a href="http://spi-inc.org/";>Software in the Public > Interest</a>. The SPI is a charitable US non-profit corporations that > acts as an <a href="http://spi-inc.org/projects/";>umbrella > organization to many open source projects</a>, including some well > known ones like Debian and PostgreSQL. Drizzle was accepted as an SPI > Associated Project by the Board on <a > href="http://spi-inc.org/meetings/minutes/2011/2011-08-10/";>August > 10th</a>. > > At this point, we would like to extend our gratitude to Josh Berkus (a > PostgreSQL lead developer) who guided and sponsored Drizzle through > the application process! We appreciate not just your experience and > expertise with the SPI, but also the gesture of friendly help between > two open source database projects. > > Having a legal entity behind Drizzle has a number of useful benefits > and any open source project that is bigger than just one or two guys > should seriously consider using one of these umbrella organizations. > > One benefit that is available to us starting this week is that you can > now donate money to Drizzle via the SPI. The easiest way to donate is > <a href="https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=46722";>using > a credit card at Click & Pledge</a>. The SPI website lists some <a > href="http://spi-inc.org/donations/";>alternative methods</a> such as > using a cheque. For US tax payers donations are tax-deductible and if > you are a business you can of course write the donation off as an > expense. > > Donations made via the SPI bank account will be properly accounted for > by the SPI treasurer. Please read above links on how to "earmark" your > donation for Drizzle. Available funds will be used by the Drizzle > project primary for expenses such as legal or IT infrastructure and > secondary for arranging developer meetings and if possible sponsoring > attendance at conferences. Note that if you want to sponsor > development of Drizzle, such as a particular feature, and you have a > large enough budget to be usable for that purpose, we recommend you > rather contract such development directly via <a > href="http://www.drizzle.org/content/support-and-services";>one of the > commercial service providers that employ Drizzle developers</a>. > > **************************************************************** > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > [email protected] > +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo > www.openlife.cc > > My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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