On 6/25/07, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
