-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 12/18/2014 05:36 PM, Tiberiu C. Turbureanu wrote: > > Finally, if joining as an autonomous project in an organization is the > way the project decides to go for, Fundația Ceata is willing to help > Parabola. From my point of view as free software activist, founder and > president of Ceata, Parabola should join a free software oriented > organization like Ceata. Both SFC and SPI host nonfree distributions. > *** Thank you for your generous offer, Tiberiu.
I didn't offer this suggestion for Parabola to "join" anything, but to be able to accept transparent institutional support for taking care of an expressed need to support full-time dedication to the project and/or compensate people's work. At any rate, I would recommend against *joining* anything. I'd like to see volunteer sponsors take care of part of the costs of maintenance of the community, including some living costs of developers so that they can spend more time on the project instead of having to work on unrelated things--again, because that was an expressed need. Anyway I think there are processes to be invented here, especially to keep the community's independence, etc. Another way to explore would be to have people hired by companies for working on Parabola, without any connection to the companies' profit stream. That might sound impossible, but keep in mind rich companies host foundations, buy art, etc., just for the sake of their image. The double advantage of using SFC, SPI, or Fundatia Ceata, is first that they're more ethically aligned with the project than corporations, and second, that they already took care of getting the funds and can allocate them without or with less influence from their corporate or institutional sponsors. == hk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJUk3CBXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAw MDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwAAoJEEgGw2P8GJg9Q+gP/2g01sFvtoAdpEZyYDQkxDgO 4GTXHdTNAq/Bl4D80xoa5UtafR41rqZxClfnSGE+t8ySZUyjglPJtVpEP8zc9mmI DKoCYR3ZvE29VMKIBA0wgDJvHbXchw2PRaOP2opL94DTwhGLaOeVjlMGGStCHckF 3zrAsTwX/1xw5g+wcdM/Qox0022FCxFCnMtOBXENh/vhd2eHP0U3Xj1cLpq5m0sP omKi0FZPy7U4CX3uJeJ3krYoHj0LL/S7XxuGWgIDMEhf25bQ++JbnaSnAJJitPOH S+5h8Slq9eP2vewj0E0P8NtcD1/4N1x2G7A556Rw1VolPsV3ZTj888fGoZ1uhsCe eh4bV9G0fuZUgdHLhsBLRqOpIy24fOBiDlPXpGsfVo9NEAwGTd+kFPFEAoq8YoKb KA0W5E2r+RE8vCaliH6d6UnwzAvgXqgFzp8rEJ6uEsmsyF3jHd4wLykA7iwA4KRR 7rc4B2Fo3zS8yZmxeAjhc4/guniwhROeQ5BR7PIzhozGr5iZBip0xs1QU2Lfhv+T pu0X7fGmUDqAUUZgV8iwuj60hk4rHlO2pxcNr2gMrtLCReLJl1lElr8BhXmp43st LTzoIayokeUil1SU2Fv4lndOLP+OUC5vGIGeSifEFdch1/JXOLAflWP12CH40KDP vDYoCjadV+4Z/NF+AWSj =9TeL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
