Hi! I think that this is a big step. Maybe the best way to fund Mono is to involve major corporations in it. It is difficult because a lot of them just think in .Net/Java rather than Mono, so a Mono Foundation might be a big step promoting Mono. With good free software projects into the Mono Foundation many companies might be interested in Mono. To talk with "N*" project maintainers like NLog, NHibernate... to welcome them to the Mono Foundation might be a hit. I think that using the Apache Foundation as the host is not a good idea because people thinks in Java when they read "Apache Foundation" but I don't know how much cost to setup up a new foundation. Im a volunteer to help in the Mono Foundation :-) Regards
El mié, 04-10-2006 a las 08:25 -0400, Miguel de Icaza escribió: > Hello, > > Over the past few years, people have suggested that we should create > a foundation to further develop Mono. The idea in general is good, it > has worked fairly well for Gnome, and has worked fairly well for > Apache. > > This comes at a time when some third parties would like to see Mono > developed in a particular direction and the process that we have at > Novell for getting paid for Mono is not optimal (which is to say, today > the best thing you can do to fund Mono is buy SUSE, which is not a very > direct way of funding Mono). > > But am not sure that everyone has the same idea about what a Mono > foundation would do, I would like such a foundation to be a mechanism to > funnel more money into the development of Mono and its ecosystem. > > A foundation might have other uses, as it does in Gnome and Apache > cases (defining release schedules, promotion, opening up the decision > making process), but I think that fundamentally it should aim to have a > budget that it can use to hire developers to work on particular areas > that need to be developed. > > I think this is a topic that is worth discussing at the upcoming > Mono Meeting: are there enough companies that would be willing to fund a > non-profit to develop open source software for this particular purpose? > > A few months ago, just when someone had brought up the idea about a > Mono Foundation, I happened to run into Greg Stein from Apache at a > conference. He had a few comments: setting up a foundation is a lot of > work (I agree); it might be best to reuse an existing foundation (I > agree as well); The Apache Foundation *might* be a host for our > activities, but does not have a mechanism for paying/funding any > activities (which is what I would personally like to see happen). > > Miguel. > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list -- Carlos Ble Shidix Technologies www.shidix.com/carlosble _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
