Re: [BangPypers] Funding FOSS through CSR

2015-11-20 Thread ashish makani
Interesting idea Harsh. As Noufal said, I would say a few companies, e.g. Red Hat, IBM LTC , Intel's open source technology center, etc, are doing pretty commendable work in open source by hiring open source devs( kernel maintainers, etc) cheers ashish sent from mobile device ; excuse typos & au

Re: [BangPypers] Funding FOSS through CSR

2015-11-20 Thread Noufal Ibrahim KV
On Sat, Nov 21 2015, Harsh Gupta wrote: [...] > So, what do you think about it? [...] I'm sceptical of organisations and much prefer that companies directly hire people to work on free software rather than first make x, then donate a small fraction of x to some organisation who then donate a f

[BangPypers] Funding FOSS through CSR

2015-11-20 Thread Harsh Gupta
Hi, After watching a talk from PyCon Australia, which I came about through the blog by Krace, I was thinking about the problem of funding free and open source software. I highly encourage you to watch it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY8B2lXIu6g By a recent mandate of Government of India,

Re: [BangPypers] Applications for Django Girls Bangalore are now open

2015-11-20 Thread Ramaseshan S
This is interesting.Would love to volunteer, If I can Cheers S.Ramaseshan +919916394958 On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Sourav Singh wrote: > The Applications for Django Girls Bangalore are open.Django Girls is a > non-profit organization that empowers and helps women to organize free, > one