On 6/25/07, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > And what would we do with that? (Really - I'm coming from > a background of the X.Org Foundation, which is having a hard > time finding ways to spend it's cash - it's not enough to hire > a stable of full-time developers, so has avoided paying for > projects so it doesn't fall into the same hole as Debian and > other projects who paid people but by doing so, had volunteers > decide they didn't want to work on it without pay, for a net > loss of people working on the project. Obviously Sun is > already paying many OpenSolaris developers, so the dynamics > here would be different.)
Both Eclipse and Apache have support staff - Eclipse more so than Apache - but neither directly fund any developers. So, money can be beneficial for providing core infrastructure support (clerical, legal, hardware, sysadmin, marketing, etc.) - but the prevailing wisdom in the community is to not directly fund any development from a non-profit. I do know that TPF has conducted some mini-grants over the years with varying levels of success. The community dynamics within OpenSolaris are different, so the OGB would have to decide whether that makes sense. -- justin
