Actually, this has its own difficulty. Sponsorship can lead to (inadvertent or intended) domination by the sponsored developers.
But I agree completely that helping volunteer communities grow is an important issue. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com>wrote: > Growing communities when a project is backed by corporations that sponsor > engineers to devote their full time volunteering at the project is much > easier compared to those other projects that are developed by a small group > of people, that devote their own free time and are passionate by the Apache > brand, and doing truly open source following the Apache Way. >
