On 02/09/11 21:36, Paragon Corporation wrote:
Chris,
I'm cc'ing regular users on this since it was several of them who had asked
for this and that is the main reason
I am pushing it.
1) I'm a bit pessimistic we would garner enough funds to fund a particular
feature.
So lets just not go there. It's talking about stuff that may never happen
And those things may best be dealt with between two individuals if we can't
come to an agreement.
2) I was thinking the money could be spent to support plane tickets and fees
to
say go to FOSS4G etc that many of our developers wouldn't be able to afford
on their own.
3) I was thinking Refractions should be reimbursed in some way for providing
hosting, build bot etc.
And if we did have extra -- perhaps we can have build bots for other
platforms
So that these major changes we make aren't quite so painful (we catch them
much earlier on).
I do not see this as a free money, but more as a simple answer to people
when they ask
"If I want to fund the project, who do I give money too?"
This is an extremely frustrating question to not be able to answer and I
don't think any of us would
Feel comfortable saying "Give it to me directly"
I agree that while assigning financial resource to development tasks is
going to be tricky and require quite a bit of time, I do like the idea
of things like sponsorship for travel to code sprints (hey - I'm in
Europe!) and also some funding some kind of build infrastructure. For
example, I think it would be useful to fund Win32 and Win64 cloud
instances so that I can help Regina with the Windows builds when she
gets stuck.
ATB,
Mark.
--
Mark Cave-Ayland - Senior Technical Architect
PostgreSQL - PostGIS
Sirius Corporation plc - control through freedom
http://www.siriusit.co.uk
t: +44 870 608 0063
Sirius Labs: http://www.siriusit.co.uk/labs
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