2008/9/4 Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Only if you are willing to fork over 400NIS. > I do not see families of private people donating more than 100NIS per > family, regardless of number of users. >
That's exactly what I meant. I'm not rich, but in any case the wine project is saving me money. > Shachar (Lingnu CEO): can you open a PayPal account (or equivalent) to > collect money from private people? Or do you have another mechanism to > deal with, say, 300 small payments? > > Shachar (Hamakor chairman): are there any tax advantages in getting > Hamakor to handle this, and work out any conflict of interest issues? > > Shachar (again, Lingnu CEO): seems that we might pull this off - so we > need more realistic estimates of the project cost. What budget do you > need to cover the cost of reviewing bugs, edit control development and > RTF edit control development? > With this figure, we can plan on 2-stage project, each stage to be > budgetted separately: > stage 1 - plan the project and make estimates. > stage 2 - actually execute. > If the output of stage 1 is made publicly available, then maybe parts of > stage 2 can be performed by outside volunteers with their own sources of > funding. > >> That's another 596 heads to find. I >> will be sure to drop hints wherever I can. > > Yes, it would help. > >> Both Google and MS have a presence in Israel. If I were to write to >> Google suggesting that it might be in their interests to at least >> partially sponsor the project, to where would I direct them for >> further information? > > Shoshana Forbes, being a Google insider, is the first name which comes > to my mind. Of course, we are speaking about sponsorship under a plan > different from GSoC. Naturally. Though independently of whatever is decided now, the community should maybe consider starting to recruiting CS students for GSoC to work on Wine BiDi support next summer. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
