I make a small donation to the Mozilla Foundation every year. I also
donate to EFF tho their aim is more political/legal that
developmental.

JohnMc

On Jul 15, 3:49 pm, lpg <lucas.gei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone here contribute to other open-source projects with a
> foundation status? Can you give us some feedback?
> Thanks!
> Lucas
>
> On Jul 15, 1:17 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > I would be interested in hearing people's comment about this too.
> > This may be a good idea to raise the profile of web2py even more than
> > for collecting tax free donations.
>
> > Massimo
>
> > On Jul 14, 6:56 pm, lpg <lucas.gei...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I think most of us in the community are interested in seeing web2py
> > > maintained/developed/protected over the long term. The community is
> > > getting to a size where we need to discuss what can be done to
> > > disseminate and improve web2py, and take some of the burden off of
> > > Massimo (although he does a great job!).
>
> > > Personally I think both money and organization are needed to create a
> > > long-lasting, supported, documented, and well maintained source-code.
> > > A foundation (like Django foundation) could be a good option, however
> > > costly to maintain. A low maintenance alternative seems the Software
> > > Freedom Conservancy,http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org.
>
> > > Does anyone have an opinion if a foundation helps or hinders an open-
> > > source framework?
>
> > > Best,
> > > Lucas
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