Toad wrote: > So the question I wonder about is whether money would be of any use to a > different project, one that I personally would give moderate amounts if > it produced a clear benefit. Since what we did is out of the question, > not having an unemployable programmer in your mist (stupid me for not > going to university... I'd have fucked it up though...), is there > anything else that it could be used for?
I can think of lots of fun ways to blow some money. Some ideas: t-shirts, mugs, pizza, beer, hardware. I'm not sure how to make that translate into a clear benefit (eg. quality code) though. Beer might actually be counter-productive. :-) We could try to do some "marketing" - eg. go to various conferences and do presentations. That might attract some more developers. I remember that, a few years ago, cosource.com seemed had a tiny bit of momentum doing the free software bounty thing, but it seems to have died. > > If somebody did want to give money, I'm sure some contributors might be > > able to use it. Since a lot of work is being done on Kaffe in an > > academic environment, maybe a scholarship would be a nice thing to be > > able to offer to some starving student... > > Well, I would like to give some money, if there was a use for it. > What's a scholarship, exactly? Paying the full $50,000 tuition fees for > somebody to go through uni? That could pay my personal salary for three > years, or a typical UK programmer's for a year. So I presume you meant > something else :) The only "scholarship" I ever got was one-time grant of $2500 (CDN$) from the British Columbia government when I got out of high school. Every bit helps - that's equivalent to a lot of hours of working at Starbucks for minimum wage. I think "grants" to non-students would be cool too. Personally, I'm not too motivated to set up anything that involves paperwork. But if somebody wants to put up some seed money for a grant or scholarship of some sort, and it could be done through some other organization (eg. Freenet, FSF, SPI, OSDL, OPG, etc.), I think that would be really cool. We could definitely do a webpage for it and/or an announcement. Cheers, - Jim _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe