I have no idea how to get there. We did speak with the CPF people about doing something similar, though.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Tuna Toksoz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> > >
