Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
> > Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote:
> >
> >> To make it an attractive destination for other companies,
> >> besides Sun, to donate cash/hardware.
> >
> >
> > And what would we do with that? (Really - I'm coming from
> > a background of the X.Org Foundation, which is having a hard
> > time finding ways to spend it's cash - it's not enough to hire
> > a stable of full-time developers, so has avoided paying for
> > projects so it doesn't fall into the same hole as Debian and
> > other projects who paid people but by doing so, had volunteers
> > decide they didn't want to work on it without pay, for a net
> > loss of people working on the project. Obviously Sun is
> > already paying many OpenSolaris developers, so the dynamics
> > here would be different.)
>
>
> An idea copied from elsewhere:
> Book out a hotel in San Diego during January or February for a
> week or two and pay for all the developers to go there for an
> opensolaris conference, write/design code, drink beer and
> eat pizza.
This kind of proposal is from before 14th June 2005. It never has been
made reality.
J?rg
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