[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Who pays for *.haskell.org machines?

2007-06-13 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Malcolm,

Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 1:55:43 PM, you wrote:
 In addition, we are in the process of setting up a separate server called
 code.haskell.org

thank you, it's all are great news. some questions:

when you plan to make code.haskell.org available?

is its funding will be reliable? for example, if we don't get money
from Google in 2008 year?

i hope that this server will be established as comfortable place for
collective work, including wiki, bug tracker, darcs, so on, so on


-- 
Best regards,
 Bulatmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Who pays for *.haskell.org machines?

2007-06-13 Thread Malcolm Wallace
  In addition, we are in the process of setting up a separate server
  called
  code.haskell.org
 
 when you plan to make code.haskell.org available?

When it is ready.  Wait for further announcements.

 is its funding will be reliable? for example, if we don't get money
 from Google in 2008 year?

No funding source is ever secure.  With existing and promised money, we
have enough to keep *.haskell.org running for at least a couple of years
into the future.  If that ever dries up, then the community will have to
think of something else.

 i hope that this server will be established as comfortable place for
 collective work, including wiki, bug tracker, darcs, so on, so on

That is the plan.

Regards,
Malcolm
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Who pays for *.haskell.org machines?

2007-06-13 Thread brad clawsie
 is its funding will be reliable? for example, if we don't get money
 from Google in 2008 year?

in irc some time ago i brought up the topic of something like the
freebsd or wikimedia foundations, but for haskell. if you can give me
a secure and trustworthy method of payment, and as a bonus, a tax
receipt (what is known as 501-c-3 status in the US), i will gladly
start writing checks on a yearly basis. i am sure others would join
me. 

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Who pays for *.haskell.org machines?

2007-06-13 Thread Bryan Burgers

 is its funding will be reliable? for example, if we don't get money
 from Google in 2008 year?

in irc some time ago i brought up the topic of something like the
freebsd or wikimedia foundations, but for haskell. if you can give me
a secure and trustworthy method of payment, and as a bonus, a tax
receipt (what is known as 501-c-3 status in the US), i will gladly
start writing checks on a yearly basis. i am sure others would join
me.


Similarly, the Perl community has a foundation, and I believe giving
to it is tax-deductible. You could look in to how they do it.

http://www.perlfoundation.org/
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Who pays for *.haskell.org machines?

2007-06-13 Thread Greg Fitzgerald

is its funding will be reliable? for example, if we don't get money from

Google in 2008 year?

Some hosting companies, like http://turtol.com/ offer pay once, keep
forever.  Would that be an option?

Thanks,
Greg
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Who pays for *.haskell.org machines?

2007-06-13 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan

Bryan Burgers wrote:


Similarly, the Perl community has a foundation, and I believe giving
to it is tax-deductible. You could look in to how they do it.


Setting up a 501(c)(3) foundation is a morass of paperwork.  If people 
within the US are interested in writing tax deductible cheques, a far 
less onerous thing to do would be to look at the Software Freedom 
Conservancy (http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/).  This offers many 
advantages not available to a small group, not least protection from 
personal liability for individual volunteer contributors.


I've worked before with the lawyers and administrators at the SFC and 
its parent organisation, the Software Freedom Law Center, and they are 
wonderful, motivated people.


b
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