On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 21:19 -0600, Grant Rettke wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Thomas Lord <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Do any other language groups do this? > > > > It depends what you mean by "this" > > Get sponsored for open source R&D. > > > but if I guess at what you mean, then the > > answer is "no". Why do you ask? > > So we can find out what worked and what did not work.
Ok. At one point in history the core of Python developers were recognized as a "team" that could be hired or that would leave a particular employer en masse. That's one example to compare and contrast. Of course, there's the whole Java community thing - another example to compare and contrast. The Perl Foundation (whatever it is officially known as) does some fund-raising and sponsors some folks (e.g. for the Perl 6 effort, from time to time). There are probably other examples but those come to mind off the top of my head. Of those, only Python (for a certain time in history and only by convention, not institution) and Java (by institution) managed to really pay for a good chunk of the core labor. Stuff like Perl was more on the scale of "recognition", not really "compensation". -t _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
