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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
