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On Monday 15 July 2002 10:47, you wrote:
> Focus (cut & pasted): "A charity group, designed to fund Free Software /
> OSS development and documentation in Canada which provides benefit to
> Canadian businesses and individuals using Linux."
ignoring the need to work out the legalities and detail items, this sounds
like a terrific idea ...
> it is to make sure that canadians' donations are well used
> (promoting canadian projects first!)
what makes a project "canadian"? Free software tends to ignore international
boundaries making such categorizations difficult. by "canadian project" do
you mean simply "a canadian working on a Free software project"?
> - products are not own by the corporation;
i'd go one step further and ask for a mandate that the source must be released
under an OSI or DFSG approved license.
> For non-projec-oriented money, the board decide how to distribute it. Or
> it could be a web site where to can give money and choose to which
> project(s) you want to contribute.
>
> promises", we start the project giving it to a small team (one guy?). On
> delivery, the small team can be paid and donation "invoiced".
by "on delivery" i suppose you mean "upon completing predetermined milestones,
the source is uploaded to a publicly accessable repository (ftp, cvs, web,
whatever)"?
in your 20k example, for instance, it would be much more realisticand nice to
split that into 3 or more milestones and upon completion of each milestone
disburse a corelative % of the funds ...
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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