Indeed, the ASF has been consistent that monetary donations be made to
the ASF as a whole, and we have not accepted targeted cash donations for
specific projects in the past. And as a Foundation, we have not paid
directly for development on our projects (although obviously we have a
paid sysadmin staff, as well as paying for our significant hardware and
bandwidth needs, etc.)
Guidelines for individual contributions:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html
Guidelines for recurring larger contributions:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html
- Shane
Dave Fisher wrote:
I started looking around at the OOo website.
I'm not sure if now is the time to bring this up, but at
http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html there is a solicitation for
funds via three processes.
Here's what the page says:
Your donation will go directly towards helping this project. Some of the ways
in which your funds might be used include:
• Hiring independent developers to work with OpenOffice.org.
• Paying for participation at trade shows and conferences.
• Paying for organization and staff at annual OpenOffice.org
Conference, OOoCon.
• Marketing banners, collateral, CDs and brochures.
Please discuss the tax benefits of donating with your accountant.
You can make a donation to our primary treasury, Team OpenOffice.org, e.V. via
PayPal or credit card or use bank transfer.
Or, if you prefer to donate US dolars (USD) via credit card, cheque or money
order, you can use use Software In the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI), and simply
identify the recipient project, OpenOffice.org, where indicataed in the
instructions SPI provides: SPI Donations for OpenOffice.org . (SPI does not
accept PayPal or wire transfers.)
Clearly there ought to be changes to the page and process when/if the podling happens.
This is probably at the ASF Board level... certainly the "hiring developers"
part doesn't fit...
Regards,
Dave
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