Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Vladimír Čunát wrote: > On 12/11/2015 05:24 PM, Domen Kožar wrote: > > What usually happens in "bigger" enterprises is that they hire someone > > internally that doesn't have enough expertise and then he/she would bug > > upstream developers to

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

On 12/08/2015 05:22 PM, Domen Kožar wrote: > There are lots of debates how enterprises should/could fund open source > instead of expecting free labor, but we're not there yet :-) What works well IMO is that company wants to use an open-source tool (e.g. nix*) to do something (e.g. CI), but some

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

On 12/11/2015 05:24 PM, Domen Kožar wrote: > What usually happens in "bigger" enterprises is that they hire someone > internally that doesn't have enough expertise and then he/she would bug > upstream developers to provide help for free. That's where we have a > problem in general :) I see. IMHO

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

This is a good example of what I meant: https://github.com/pybee/paying-the-piper On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Domen Kožar wrote: > There are lots of debates how enterprises should/could fund open source > instead of expecting free labor, but we're not there yet :-) > > On Tue,

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

2015-12-07 18:29 GMT+00:00 Matthias Beyer : > On 07-12-2015 16:36:50, Tomasz Czyż wrote: > > https://www.bountysource.com/search?query=nixos - maybe this is good > > enough, no? Just needs a little more advertisement :-) > > This points to the old nixos package repository

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

On 15-12-07 04:36pm, Tomasz Czyż wrote: > https://www.bountysource.com/search?query=nixos - maybe this is good > enough, no? Just needs a little more advertisement :-) My problem with Bountysource is that most bounties are a flipping joke compared to what someone would earn in even badly paid

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

There are lots of debates how enterprises should/could fund open source instead of expecting free labor, but we're not there yet :-) On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Profpatsch wrote: > On 15-12-07 04:36pm, Tomasz Czyż wrote: > >

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

Maybe NixOS foundation could create Patreon page/project or something similar?  I would happily chip in. Tadas Barzdžius On Tue, Dec 8, 2015, at 06:22 PM, Domen Kožar wrote: > There are lots of debates how enterprises should/could fund open > source instead of expecting free labor, but we're

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

Hi, On 07/12/15 17:33, Thomas Hunger wrote: > There's the foundation https://nixos.org/nixos/foundation.html which would be > a > great structure to collect and direct money. Yes, although I don't think the foundation is currently set up to pay developers (maybe Rob can comment on this).

[Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

Hi all, I've been a Nix/NixOS user for a few years now. While some parts of NixOS are moving forward rather quickly (awesome!), some of the Nix tooling is improving painfully slow (IMHO). I was wondering if any core devs have considered starting a fundraiser to possibly work full-time on some

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

https://www.bountysource.com/search?query=nixos - maybe this is good enough, no? Just needs a little more advertisement :-) 2015-12-07 16:33 GMT+00:00 Thomas Hunger : > There's the foundation https://nixos.org/nixos/foundation.html which > would be a great structure to

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

There's the foundation https://nixos.org/nixos/foundation.html which would be a great structure to collect and direct money. Eelco - I'm not sure where to look so I couldn't find anything about the foundation's activity. Do you keep meeting notes somewhere online? best, Tom On 7 December 2015

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

Quoting Bjørn Forsman (2015-12-07 20:45:49) > On 7 December 2015 at 17:36, Tomasz Czyż wrote: > > https://www.bountysource.com/search?query=nixos - maybe this is good enough, > > no? Just needs a little more advertisement :-) > > I added some bounties :-) > I think for

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

On 7 December 2015 at 17:36, Tomasz Czyż wrote: > https://www.bountysource.com/search?query=nixos - maybe this is good enough, > no? Just needs a little more advertisement :-) I added some bounties :-) Best regards, Bjørn Forsman

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

On 07-12-2015 16:36:50, Tomasz Czyż wrote: > https://www.bountysource.com/search?query=nixos - maybe this is good > enough, no? Just needs a little more advertisement :-) This points to the old nixos package repository (github.com/nixos/nixos <- why does this still exist???) - I'd consider this