Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS Foundation

2015-07-19 Thread Vladimír Čunát
A related idea. On 07/08/2015 11:22 AM, Rob Vermaas wrote: So now the begging starts :-) We would like people to start supporting the NixOS foundation (financially, your commits/work have already been awesome!). Donations to the foundation seem a nice way to support the project as a whole. On

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS Foundation

2015-07-18 Thread zimbatm
If you ever get tired to managing the admin yourself you can always join the Software Freedom Conservancy https://sfconservancy.org/. I have never used them personally but they seem to be well respected each time I saw them mentioned. They are also much in the background and don’t touch the

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS Foundation

2015-07-18 Thread Christian Theune
Hi, On 10 Jul 2015, at 17:02, Vladimír Čunát vcu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, it slightly surprises me that it was created without mentioning it here beforehand (AFAIK). That seems a suboptimal approach to me, but I've got no idea myself around such things, such as how foundations work.

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS Foundation

2015-07-10 Thread Nathan Bijnens
The Apache Foundation currently has no OS, with software ranging from loggers to webservers to lots of Big Data. The advantage of becoming part of an existing foundation is that it's much easier for companies to work with, both in terms of donating time as money, as well as it's name recognition.

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS Foundation

2015-07-10 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Hi, it slightly surprises me that it was created without mentioning it here beforehand (AFAIK). That seems a suboptimal approach to me, but I've got no idea myself around such things, such as how foundations work. On 07/08/2015 11:27 AM, Luca Bruno wrote: Great thanks! It appears that the

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS Foundation

2015-07-10 Thread Joachim Schiele
hey, this is good news and very much appreciated. i've been thinking about a nixos foundation a lot lately. thanks for creating it! best wishes, joachim On 08.07.2015 11:22, Rob Vermaas wrote: Hi, Last month, the NixOS Foundation came to life. The foundation was started to support the

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS Foundation

2015-07-10 Thread Nathan Bijnens
Just curious, was it ever considered to join an existing Foundation, like the Apache Software Foundation? Anyway congratulations to the NixOS Foundation! N. On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 4:02 PM Joachim Schiele j...@lastlog.de wrote: hey, this is good news and very much appreciated. i've been

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS Foundation

2015-07-10 Thread Joachim Schiele
has it's own foundation: - krita - blender why shouldn't we? also what apache does is not our focus i guess. On 10.07.2015 16:05, Nathan Bijnens wrote: Just curious, was it ever considered to join an existing Foundation, like the Apache Software Foundation? Anyway congratulations to the

[Nix-dev] NixOS Foundation

2015-07-08 Thread Rob Vermaas
Hi, Last month, the NixOS Foundation came to life. The foundation was started to support the NixOS related projects and its infrastructure, and improve continuity for this. One of the main reasons we needed to create a foundation, is to start up fundraising for extending and maintaining the

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS Foundation

2015-07-08 Thread Luca Bruno
Great thanks! It appears that the donation page from paypal is in Dutch. Isn't it possible to default to English? I don't see a way to change the language of the donation page. Best regards, ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS Foundation

2015-07-08 Thread Rob Vermaas
Hi Luca, Will look into it immediately! Thanks! Cheers, Rob On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Luca Bruno lethalma...@gmail.com wrote: Great thanks! It appears that the donation page from paypal is in Dutch. Isn't it possible to default to English? I don't see a way to change the language of