Re: Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

2020-12-18 Thread Marc Dunivan
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020, 00:15 Blair Vidakovich wrote: > Hey all, > > I have been meditating on the state of free software over the last week > in some intense and productive discussions with my Unix Users Group here > in Perth. I was dismayed to find out that the top three GNU/Linux > distributions

Re: Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

2020-12-18 Thread Joshua Branson
I think it would also be a good idea to potentially encourage others to match your donation. Perhaps we could run a fundraiser, and we could advertise that you will match any donations up to $4,000. My two cents. -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.h

Re: Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

2020-12-18 Thread Almudena Garcia
A possible way, which don't requires direct financial, It's join the Hurd to contribute platforms. Currently, Hurd participates in Google Summer of Code. But there are more platforms, like Outreachy or other similar, which allows to pay external contributors for makes a development in Free Software

Re: Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

2020-12-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le ven. 18 déc. 2020 12:18:55 +0100, a ecrit: > The question is rather whether we have anybody ready to be paid for > working on GNU/Hurd. Somebody could pop out and say "I'll work for > that", but he'd need a lot of mentoring before being able to contribute, > and that alone could

Re: Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

2020-12-18 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Blair Vidakovich writes: > I have been donating money to various different free software projects > over the last few weeks, like putting a bounty on implementing OMEMO > encryption for XMPP in EMACS, and contributing to the patreon of Mezzano > OS, a LISP operating system project. Thank you for

Re: Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

2020-12-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Blair Vidakovich, le ven. 18 déc. 2020 13:08:23 +0800, a ecrit: > I was dismayed to find out that the top three GNU/Linux distributions > were Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mint, It depends who you ask. If you look at https://distrowatch.com/ you'll get another answer. If you ask people, they'd tell you tha

Considering Making A Financial Contribution to GNU Hurd

2020-12-18 Thread Blair Vidakovich
Hey all, I have been meditating on the state of free software over the last week in some intense and productive discussions with my Unix Users Group here in Perth. I was dismayed to find out that the top three GNU/Linux distributions were Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mint, this morning. I thought at least