On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Raphael Bircher <rbirc...@apache.org>wrote:
> Hi at all > > We allready talked about crowdfunding and generaly agree, that this will > be a good idea. I will start at the next time a p'roject at a crowdfunding > platform to rise money for a LTS Version for 4.0.2. So we can still support > Mac OS X 10.6 downward. I plane to back port security fixes and really > important bug fixes. The costs will be about $2000. This just for > information. > > The big question is, how we handle such projects? My proposal: > > - Create a site with open / in programming / finished crowd funding > projects. > - Make a blog about it if the organizer whish that. > Other Ideas? > These crowdfunding activities would not be official acts of AOO or Apache, right? Since (my understanding is) Apache doesn't support targeted donations or paid development? If they're outside/independent acts, wouldn't they be, for all practical purposes, a subclass of third-party support vendors? Don
