On Jul 1, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Stefane Fermigier <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Jul 1, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >>> ... Apache projects are not funded by external entities, >> >> This particular one, at least (and probably most of the others) are. Or are >> you implying everyone is working on these projects for free ? > > No, Stanbol is not funded by IKS.
You obviously have a very different different notion of "being funded" than me. For me, there is money being spent by some organizations to make the project happen. I call this being funded. What don't you like about this definition ? > IKS is welcome to make donations to the ASF I'm not talking about donations to the ASF and you perfectly know that. >>> I suggest >>> changing this to just "the Apache Stanbol project was initiated by the >>> European R&D project IKS - Interactive Knowledge Stack" with the link. >> >> How about: "Some people who are working on the Apache Stanbol project are >> funded by European R&D project IKS - Interactive Knowledge Stack, as well as >> several european SME [list the SMEs]" ? > > Right now, I'm ok with that if we mention IKS only, and if we want to > be complete we should add "until the end of 2012". > > If you want to add company names to that, we need to define rules that > make sure that's done in a fair way. Do we include independents > working on Stanbol on their own time, for example? Do we include > companies whose employees submitted just one patch? This needs a > separate discussion, so right now I'd say include IKS only. Nuxeo is funding part of the effort and out of that funding, expects to see some respect and some love. That's probably true for the other contributing organizations, but I won't speak for them. S. -- Stefane Fermigier, Founder and Chairman, Nuxeo Open Source, Java EE based, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) http://www.nuxeo.com/ - +33 1 40 33 79 87 - http://twitter.com/sfermigier Join the Nuxeo Group on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/groups?gid=43314 New Nuxeo release: http://nuxeo.com/dm54 "There's no such thing as can't. You always have a choice."
