On 19/12/2009 11:23 AM, R-Elists wrote: > i would encourage other SA team members to have a wish list and publish.
A number of committers have have added Amazon wishlists to the CREDITS file included with the distribution. The most up-to-date version is available on our website [1] by clicking CREDITS [2] right off the top of the home page. Some of the newer committers have not yet added a wishlist. > ummm i am confused though... there are projects out there like CentOS that > are dealing with things and cannot accept > donations right now that would go towards the project or team salaries... I think CentOS is accepting hardware and stuff like that. It's cash that they're currently not accepting, I believe, probably due to tax concerns (but I speculate). > since SA is part of Apache Foundation, do you get paid or can you get paid > or how does this all work? The only staff paid by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is 1 (or maybe 2 now) full time network administrator(s). Everyone else, including committers, PMC members, PMC chairs/Apache VPs (me), members (Justin, Theo, me, etc) and board members/VP/President, etc are not paid. AFAIK our "in-house" lawyer and even the "main PR person" volunteer their time. Many committers/etc that do stuff for the ASF work for companies that pay them to work on ASF software projects as a part of (or their entire) their job. As far as I know there is no-one involved with SpamAssassin right now that gets paid for their work. Except for perhaps, Warren Togami who I believe is employed by RedHat. I think even Warren donates a good bit of his own time though. The ASF gets revenue to pay the network administrator(s), for hardware, network infra, etc, solely from sponsorship. Info on that is here. [3] > as awesome as SA is, i often wonder why the SA team isnt salaried or > something to that effect. It's hard to find people willing to pay for what they can get free. The best a lot of open source contributors get is consulting work for custom integrations or what not. > do i need to read the apache foundation docs somewhere? You're of course more than welcome to. Perhaps the best place to start is here [4] and here [5]. [1] http://spamassassin.apache.org/ [2] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/trunk/CREDITS [3] http://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html [4] http://www.apache.org/foundation/ [5] http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html Regards, Daryl
