Instead pay in cash, the fund can be used to buy some goodies. They can be bought on a local e-shop, by Ayende's company (as he said he don't have to pay taxes if he spends all the money).
If the ideia is not compensate commiters and have full time developers, I think you should consider the amount of donations needed. Let's be optimistic and says that this campaign raises U$ 10k. At a $ 25 hourly rate and on pace of 40 hours per week the project will have 10 weeks of paid/sponsored dev, which is good number imho. But assuming that most of the NHibernate committers are from Europe/North America and have nice jobs, that will be very tuff and bravous decision to abandon a well established and wealth job to take a ten weeks gig. Cheers, Henry Conceição On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Richard Brown (gmail) < [email protected]> wrote: > > I agree that the logistics of how to distribute money to committers would > be hard to tie down ... to pay me to fix a bug might take 4 days, but the > same bug could be fixed by Fabio/Ayende/etc in 2 hours. (Not to mention I > keep my daily rates suitably high ... so perhaps NH couldn't afford me? > [image: > Winking smile emoticon] ) I do this for personal achievement, and I am > happy to contribute time whenever I practically can. > > > In addition, I would feel genuinely guilty accepting money after coming to > the project so late in the day, and contributing a comparatively small > amount, especially considering the time and effort from the many committers > before me. Another thing to consider is that NHibernate is more than just > the committers ... the community who spend time answering questions in the > users group contribute just as much as committers. Wouldn't they deserve to > be paid too? > > > I like the idea of having a fund for things the project might need. If not > for servers, then for anything else we might need (a web designer to make > the NhForge look as nice as the jQuery site http://forum.jquery.com/#chome? > We really should steal/borrow those nice icons at the top of the page) ... > or I liked the idea of mugs n t-shirts. [image: Smile emoticon] > > > Oh ... and ... as a contractor in the UK ... don't even get me started on > TAX!! > > > *From:* Ayende Rahien <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:00 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [nhibernate-development] NHibernate donation campaign > > >>>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Fabio Maulo <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> and sine when to donate time is different than donate money ? >>>>> Wasn't Steve's time paid ? >>>>> Sergej was hired (probably as Steve is a iMeta's employee), sure, and >>>>> that is a little bit different than donate and receive an invoice. >>>>> >>>>> Suppositions: >>>>> Tomorrow the XYZ company is available to pay 3 months of Richard's time >>>>> to work in NH. >>>>> After tomorrow the ZYX company is available to pay 3 weeks of Tuna's >>>>> time to work in NH. >>>>> ranlix company is available to spent 3 days of Davy's time to fix >>>>> something or develop a new feature. >>>>> >>>>>
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