One really constructive way to donate would be to fund a student to develop the feature(s) you want during their summer vacation. CUED did so for Peter C & myself last summer, and between us we managed some good code clean-ups and found a number of crash bugs.
Yes, your work was great and we are much the better for your participation! Thank you again! You can always sign up for the Google Summer of Code! FWIW, the total amount of money donated to gEDA is small potatos. We could pay a student for almost a week at the current level of funding. It's not going to make a big dent in your rent. That's why we're not proposing to use the money to fund students. Also, paying developers from the project potentially creates an insider/outsider situation, where some long-term developers become jealous that others are being paid while they aren't. Look at the crybaby behavior in the Debian project when the developers attempted to pay some people to finish off the project. We want to avoid that. For now, we are very grateful if an external organization, like Cambridge University or Google, pays somebody they select to work on gEDA. However, the gEDA Project itself has neither the money nor the organizational structure to pay people. Stuart _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
