Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@kathe.in wrote: how to? We don't really have a mechanism for that, cause we don't have a path for that money. If you want to save up some money, there is: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/donations/ I'm sure there's other equipment that developers could use; Sepherosa Ziehau has been writing drivers for various high-throughput network cards on a regular basis, but he needs physical hardware to test it. The other alternative is to contribute time. Open source projects need that more than anything. Figuring out a bug report or just using DragonFly in a specific project, and then reporting how you did it, is useful.
Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring
We don't really have a mechanism for that, cause we don't have a path for that money. If you want to save up some money, there is: I have a feeling that Dragonfly is cutting itself out of extra funding and possibly developers. A lot of people might want to donate money for tax reasons. For example Minix3 that just went BSD, i looked at their website and they are paying at least 2-3 full time developers.
Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring
On 26 June 2012 19:53, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: We don't really have a mechanism for that, cause we don't have a path for that money. If you want to save up some money, there is: I have a feeling that Dragonfly is cutting itself out of extra funding and possibly developers. I do have the same opinion. What can we do to have a path for the money? -- Raimundo A. P. Santos Bacharelando em Informática ICMC - USP
Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Raimundo Santos rait...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 June 2012 19:53, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: We don't really have a mechanism for that, cause we don't have a path for that money. If you want to save up some money, there is: I have a feeling that Dragonfly is cutting itself out of extra funding and possibly developers. I do have the same opinion. Same opinion over here too ... What can we do to have a path for the money? -- Raimundo A. P. Santos Bacharelando em Informática ICMC - USP
Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring
It's been over 10 years since DragonFly forked off FreeBSD. While the progress is still happening at a reasonable pace, I think it's time to step it up and get the OS more out there. Otherwise it's always going to be just a research project. Justin is doing a great job promoting DF via DBSDLog but more funding is really the key.
Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring
On 27/06/12 10:48, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: It's been over 10 years since DragonFly forked off FreeBSD. While the progress is still happening at a reasonable pace, I think it's time to step it up and get the OS more out there. Otherwise it's always going to be just a research project. Justin is doing a great job promoting DF via DBSDLog but more funding is really the key. Apologies to those I have been inadvertently mailing direct! Agreed! .and astute investment of those funds. There are probably quite a number of list members that aren't developers, but would be happy to donate in other ways. Accountants, business consultants, even hardware suppliers. Wouldn't a couple of these be nice? http://www.ixsystems.com/ Things that are out of the reach of individuals, but almost negligible by way of crowd sourcing. The potential of the social capital of the community needs to be employed. Regards, David. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
