The biggest danger is that projects will get funded that do not fit into
the strategic direction being followed by the ASF committers.
When the funded artifacts are turned over to the ASF team (assuming that
they are not doing the work) and they refuse to incorporate the changes
into an official release, there will be a fork in the project which will
be supported by the companies that paid for the enhancement.
ASF will have to be very careful not to let egos interfere with good
long-term management.
On the whole, this could be a good thing for ASF, if it is handled properly.
Ron
On 18/07/2012 9:19 AM, Tony Lâmpada wrote:
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.
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