Just thought of adding it to the bottom of this page:

http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/contrib.html

But I don't want to cause trouble, so let's hear what the PMC sais about it.
Regards,
Daniel


"Slide Developers Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 
08.11.04 16:49:32:
> 
> The donation XMLMind makes does not introduce any dependency of slides 
> open source. It is just a donation made to promote the project. So I 
> don't see any problem.
> We only need a "Sponsors page" and need to vote for each sponsor, I think.
> Stefan
> 
> 
> Daniel Florey wrote:
> 
> > So what should we do? Would be great to have this tool to work with. I've 
> > seen this page where some hardware donations have been mentioned:
> > http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html
> > 
> > So personally I like the idea that the commiters get some tools for free to 
> > support their work and that the one who donated them gets a credit in any 
> > form.
> > Do you have a proposal how we could achieve this?
> > Cheers,
> > Daniel
> > 
> > "Slide Developers Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 
> > 08.11.04 15:59:37:
> > 
> >>Daniel Florey wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>Good news:
> >>>I've recieved an email from the author of the great XMLEditor software. 
> >>>It's a very nice piece of software that works perfect to create docbook 
> >>>based documentation.
> >>>As you can see from the attached email, he will donate a free professional 
> >>>license for the Slide commiters. So if you are interested, please send me 
> >>>a mail containing your @apache email address.
> >>>Any objections to add XMLMind to the sponsors part of the Slide page? I'm 
> >>>sure that nobody will vote against it after using the nice XMLEditor (that 
> >>>already supports WebDAV...)
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>
> >>I'm not sure this is a policy the ASF would approve of. I don't think I 
> >>have ever seen this type of sponsorship in any ASF project. As you know 
> >>ASF works on the basis of merit where contributions are rewarded on an 
> >>individual basis. 
> > 
> > 
> > What do you mean by this?
> > 
> > 
> >>Personally I would be strongly against this form of 
> >>partnership where the only cooperative structure is a material one. If 
> >>XMLMind is interested in cooperation of the kind we do at the ASF, then 
> >>the first step would be to make their product ASL or compatible.
> >>
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