Hi,
Have a few questions for you. Would the fund raising be handled through FreeBSD or direct to you?
He has answered that. Funding direct to PHK.
Please READ the web page that you quoted from his original message: http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/funding.html
Are you taking pledges now? I would assume you would gather pledges over the next month to see if can get the USD16500, if you do, then the pledges become real donations, if you don't, then the pledges become null.
He has answered that. Pledges are not money. Pledges are wishes. It is a bad idea to bet your family's financial health and your mortgage on the other people's "wish" to contribute, even if those wishes are well-intended. This is particularly true if that group of well-wishers include a number of people that you have never dealt with before.
I can tell you from my own personal experience that many people will promise you money to do something, and then after you do it they'll have a million excuses. "Oh, my car broke down, poor little old me. I guess *you* will have to do without that money that I had promised *you*, because *my* car broke down". Believe me, they'll make it sound like you're supposed to apologize to them for the bad luck that they have had.
If the fund raising is connected with FreeBSD, could people who donate larger amounts get some form of acknowledgement on the FreeBSD site? This would give an incentive for vendors who sell products that rely or use FreeBSD to donate larger amounts.
This has already been discussed in the thread. I'm sure that various things could be arranged for any vendor who really puts up some money to help fund Poul-Henning's work on the specific project he is proposing to do.
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