[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] 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

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

2015-11-24 Thread Sreekanth S Rameshaiah
On 21 November 2015 at 08:26, Noufal Ibrahim KV wrote: > 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 > fraction of that to the act

Re: [BangPypers] Funding FOSS through CSR

2015-11-24 Thread Sreekanth S Rameshaiah
On 21 November 2015 at 01:46, Harsh Gupta wrote: > By a recent mandate of Government of India, all the companies which have an > annual profit of more than 5 crores have at spend least 2% of the profit of > last three years as Cooperate Social Responsibility (CSR). This mandate > came > into powe