As this is to drive NH development, have we ever thought of applying for Google Summer of Code? It may drive students into opensource as well as find some good future committers. The student will also receive stipend and this is funded by google.
Tuna Toksöz Eternal sunshine of the open source mind. http://devlicio.us/blogs/tuna_toksoz http://tunatoksoz.com http://twitter.com/tehlike On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Ayende Rahien <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, > > I am setting up a donation campaign for NHibernate. As part of that > campaign, my company will donate 5,000$ for the project. > > Below is the text of the blog post that I intend to post. I would like to > get your comments and any suggestions on how to make this better. > > > NHibernate is the most popular Open Source Object Relational Mapper in the > .NET framework. As an Open Source project, all the work done on it is done > for free. We would like to be able to dedicate more time to NHibernate, but > even as a labor of love, the amount of time that we can spend on a free > project is limited. > > In order to facilitate that, we opened a donation > campaign<http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8615>that will allow you to donate > money to the project. > > [image: Click here to lend your support to: NHibernate and make a donation > at www.pledgie.com !] <http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/8615> > > *What is this money going to be used for?* > > This money will go directly to NHibernate committers, in order to sponsor > the development of NHibernate itself. > > As one caveat of that, none of that money is going to go to me personally. > As you are probably aware, I have my own commercial interest in NHibernate > (NHibernate > Profiler <http://nhprof.com/>), so I don’t feel I should benefit from the > donations. > > *Donation Matching* > > Moreover, my company, Hibernating Rhinos <http://hibernatingrhinos.com/>, > is going to *match any donation *to this campaign (to a total limit of > 5,000$), as a way to give back to the NHibernate project for the excellent > software it produced. > > *Why should you donate?* > > If you are a user of NHibernate, you gained a lot from build on such a > solid foundation. We ask to you to donate so that we can make the project > even better. If your company uses NHibernate, ask it to donate to this > campaign. >
