Recently I went to the Gimp website and saw a meter of funding which they
achieve to raise 20,000 dls for their developer event.
Unfortunately today release of a new version of gimp drop the announcement
out of the new's page (http://www.gimp.org)
Internet archieve for some reason also didnt record the gimp.org site
since January
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.gimp.org
There is always the casual email to the gimp folks and researching how
they got the 20K fund raising support.
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:25:13 -0500, Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 15:44 +0200, eric b wrote:
Hi,
Several OpenOffice.org Projects have no or very limited resources,
like e.g. Mac OS X Aqua port and Education Project (still incubator
project).
There were suggestions about setting up sustainable fund raising
projects for education in the past but there has never been the will to
do it. In fact in my own case I feel I was actively discouraged so took
my "resources" to greener pastures. We are managing to sustain 5 people
now but it has been a slow and painstaking process. However, it shows it
is possible to develop a commercially viable business on open systems
for education and we are still growing. I wish you bon chance, but
unless OOo gets more organised eg like Mozilla foundation has, I don't
hold out much hope.
To continue the effort, like mentor students writing code for
OpenOffice.org project, help developers attending conferences, or pay
them expensive memberships for development (like Apple ADC, or iPhone
SDK ), or even pay one skilled developer to write some new feature,
they need a bit of money.
For more information, please have a look at : http://
eric.bachard.free.fr/news ( and if you need more information, feel
free to ask me in private )
Thank you !
Eric Bachard
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Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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