On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Bill Traynor wrote: > I can see it now. We'll build CLUE Centres out of old warehouses in cities > across Canada and house opensource research and development! Don't laugh, > the old Gooderham & Worts brewery in Toronto is currently being converted > into an Artists Village. Wouldn't the corporate benefactors of opensource > be willing to fund something like this?
Oh gosh there are corporations like Sun and SGI that have funded open source when it was in their interest though :-) A government grant would be handed out by a committee of known and experienced OSS developers who would be able to appreciate writing the code for the sake of it. Not because it gives someone something to sell. AFAIK art grants are issued like this: a group of peers judge whether what's being made is art or not. We could use OSI to approve the licenses -- actually I have no issue with clamping a specific license much like the BSL which demands that it remain free and open source with no strings attached. The only strings to be attached is that it gets done and someone neutral oversees it to stop the funding if it falters (see sourceforge mania with 0% activity projects). > Sure, approach everybody! I'd like to publically state that I'm willing to manage and oversee any "OSS lab" setup in the Toronto area by any commericial entity which wishes to do so. I would perform such an act for free just to have access to such a thing. If they are serious about it I'd be willing to write a proposal for it too :-) -- Thamer Al-Harbash http://www.whitefang.com/ Alpha Geek of the Toronto UNIX Cabal: "Perfection is a lead pipe and one sorry Poser." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
