On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 06:07:28AM -0400, Bob Mutch wrote: > Hi, > > Current we are donating $10,000 to 200 projects which is $50 per project. > > Please let me know what license your project is under and the > page and location in the page where this is stated.
it is a kernel project with additional userspace tools both GPL, so the relevant urls are probably: http://www.linux.org/info/gnu.html http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/util-vserver/ > We will be asking other companies to donate to the list we are > compiling also. > > This is the acknowledgement I would like placed. > > <a href="http:/www.seocompany.ca/">SEO Company</a> financially > supports the free and open source software (FOSS) community with > Project SOS (Support Open Source). the wiki should allow for something very similar :) > Find below the 5 requirements and 7 questions I need answers for. > Sorry to have to send you a form letter like this but I am currently > over 100 emails behind on this project. > > Requirements: > 1. The project must have a website. http://linux-vserver.org/ > 2. You must place an acknowledgment of the each donation on your site. think we can do that on the Hall of Fame > 3. Your project must be currently active and has produced a software > product. is active and produces Linux-VServer :) > 4. Your software product must be released under a free open source > software license and this must be stated somewhere on your site. GPL and see above > 5. You must have a PayPal address or PayPal service that donations > can be sent to. http://www.13thfloor.at/vserver/donate/ > Questions: > 1. Will you be able to place an acknowledgement of each donation > on your website? I think so ... > 2. What page would you be putting the acknowledgement on? I'd say a main entry on the Hall of Fame and a detailed page for each acknowledgement? so something like: http://linux-vserver.org/Hall+of+Fame http://linux-vserver.org/SEO+Company > 3. What is your PayPal account email? [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 4. What license is your software project released under (GPL, > LGPL, BSD, GNU, OSI approved, or what ever) and what is GPL which is GNU and OSI approved > the URL of the page where the license information is posted? http://www.linux.org/info/gnu.html http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/util-vserver/ > 5. What was the date of the first version of your software? somewhere around October 2001 > 6. How many different versions of the projects software have been released? many, roughly more than 1500 kernel releases and at least 50 different userspace tool versions > 7. Is your project currently active? I'd say so .. we have a new release candidate every week and many folks visit the IRC channel > Also check out my Project SOS page. > http://www.seocompany.ca/project-support-open-source.html > > If you don't mind you can digg me at digg.com and even leave a > comment after you get a donation. > http://digg.com/software/Company_throwing_money_at_open_source_projects > > If you blog or have friends that blog you may want to ask > them to blog up on the project. The more noise we make the > more companies that will use my list to make donations and > the more money that will be sent to support your project. just a small question, who verifies the lists _you_ put together and send to the companies? I mean, it's not clear to me how to prevent misuse of that list by e.g. adding a few additional paypal accounts :) best, Herbert > Thanks! > > Bob Mutch > 519-636-6663 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.seocompany.ca/project-support-open-source.html > bobmutchseo <-- Yahoo IM > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <-- MSN Messenger > bobmutchseo <-- AIM > > -----Original Message----- > From: Herbert Poetzl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: May 20, 2006 6:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Linux-VServer ML > Subject: Re: Project Support Open Source (SOS) wanted to donation to your > project > > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:27:30AM -0700, Bob Mutch wrote: > > Hi my name is Bob Mutch ... > > Hi Bob! > > > .. and I am the owner of Solutions with Service, > > a Canadian company that uses open source software products. > > > I have started a project called ?Project SOS? (Support Open Source) to > > help fund free and open source software projects. > > > I would like to make a donation to your open source work > > http://linux-vserver.org though our project. > > sounds good! > > > Here is the page that how the donations work. > > > > http://www.seocompany.ca/project-support-open-source.html > > sounds good too ... > > > There has been a post on digg.com with a few comments from open source > > developers that have received donations already. > > > > http://digg.com/software/Company_throwing_money_at_open_source_projects > > > Do you have a page where you give acknowledgement to your sponsors? > > yep, it's on our wiki: > > http://linux-vserver.org/Hall+Of+Fame > > > Let me know! > > and here is our donation page: > > http://www.13thfloor.at/vserver/donate/ > > > Regards, > > > > Bob Mutch > > TIA, and it's good to see that OS (and Free) Software > _is_ valued ... > > best, > Herbert > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > SEO Company.ca > > > > 519-636-6636 > _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
