Hi Benson Then I think that all will be well indeed. Building that kind of relationship with ASF is very much aligned with our goals.
Right now we're working on multiple fronts to improve our service and get a small scale operation going, so we can make the necessary tweaks to make the model actually work. When the time comes, I believe approaching ASF (and Codehaus, JBoss, etc) will come very naturally. And donating part of what we get just makes a lot of sense (even if we were thinking as investors). FreedomSponsors is made by developers who love open source, and our main goal is to serve the OSS community, while also being able to work on the open source projects that we love ourselves! But those are still dreams for the future. Now is the time for us to do the best we can to get there. So... Wish us luck! :-) Thanks for getting involved! Tony Lâmpada PS: Speaking of OSS, just as a side note: We are going to open source FreedomSponsor's website code as well (there's some code cleanup we have to do first, though) On 17 July 2012 15:41, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is extremely unlikely that the Foundation will be interested in any > participation except to gratefully accept any unrestricted donations > your organization might happen to make. If you want to state on your > website that you are going to donate something to the ASF when the > issue is an ASF project JIRA, and you conform the ASF trademark and > branding guidelines, I predict (speaking without wearing any official > ASF hat) that all will be well. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
