hi Luca, On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Luca Dionisi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Jaromil <[email protected]> wrote: > > i think you are very serious and responsible Luca, it has been a > > pleasure to read your skepticism so far. OTOH i'm confident we are > > mature enough to try structure funding in a productive way. > > Am I skeptic? well, at least that's how i end up defining my perception of your reactions. maybe it's the wrong term indeed, however i agree with you when you question how funding can really help development. > I didn't see any true interest in helping with the code from anyone. > I am still there, how could I be skeptic? yes i meant skeptic towards this funding issue, not NTK itself. speaking for myself, i was testing NTK in a lot of environments when it was still in C (and you can see a working binary included in the 1.x series of dyne:bolic, even), but i'm not proficient in python and that language shift has been something i understand as necessary, but wasn't facilitating my participation. however, many of us never stopped following the project and we just have to find the right moment to get involved, that's why maybe i say funding can be useful for a meeting and/or a code sprint rather than paying an average wage or so. to give it a try. > I just don't think that an average wage could make any difference. nope. but instead a residence of a week or so somewhere pleasant for a group of interested developers, plus a follow up funding for a year of development to those that engage themselves the most, i'd say it would make a difference. so even a budget of 20k would make a big difference for the project and you would defintely feel less alone after we've used that to come together and make a roadmap. yet somehow i feel that the only things that will ever get sponsored by millions in EU is stuff as NADA[1] - and we are now in 2011 looking at a kickstarter fundraiser in USA that will save us from stagnation AND mega-corporations funding their research on enclosed technologies with european public money. as i've written elsewhere on the topic, i had no doubt we had to wait for uncle Sam to save us. and yes you are right, i'm the skeptic here. ciao [1] http://www.nanodatacenters.eu
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