On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 15:14 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/9/4 Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > See one of my previous E-mail messages.
> > We are looking at 60K NIS. If we can round up a group of companies with
> > total of 600 potential Wine users, then this should be doable - with
> > 100NIS/head, the companies would save costs of dual-booting, VM
> > deployments and licenses on extra copies of MS-Windows XP that they'd
> > otherwise need.
> >
> > --- Omer
>
> Thanks, Omer. I'll sign up for the first four spots: me, the wife, the
> daughter, and another on the way.
Only if you are willing to fork over 400NIS.
I do not see families of private people donating more than 100NIS per
family, regardless of number of users.
Shachar (Lingnu CEO): can you open a PayPal account (or equivalent) to
collect money from private people? Or do you have another mechanism to
deal with, say, 300 small payments?
Shachar (Hamakor chairman): are there any tax advantages in getting
Hamakor to handle this, and work out any conflict of interest issues?
Shachar (again, Lingnu CEO): seems that we might pull this off - so we
need more realistic estimates of the project cost. What budget do you
need to cover the cost of reviewing bugs, edit control development and
RTF edit control development?
With this figure, we can plan on 2-stage project, each stage to be
budgetted separately:
stage 1 - plan the project and make estimates.
stage 2 - actually execute.
If the output of stage 1 is made publicly available, then maybe parts of
stage 2 can be performed by outside volunteers with their own sources of
funding.
> That's another 596 heads to find. I
> will be sure to drop hints wherever I can.
Yes, it would help.
> Both Google and MS have a presence in Israel. If I were to write to
> Google suggesting that it might be in their interests to at least
> partially sponsor the project, to where would I direct them for
> further information?
Shoshana Forbes, being a Google insider, is the first name which comes
to my mind. Of course, we are speaking about sponsorship under a plan
different from GSoC.
--- Omer
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