[okfn-discuss] Setting up 2 Funds (for F/OSS and Open Knowledge)
Benj. Mako Hill
mako at atdot.cc
Fri Jul 21 20:14:52 UTC 2006
<quote who="Rufus Pollock" date="Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 03:19:42PM +0100">
> As stated the funding would be oriented towards pieces of software that
> we use. Thus examples of projects/organizations to which the money might
> go are:
>
> * python
> * debian
> * moinmoin
> * subversion
> * trac
> * ...
>
> Beyond these there are a host of smaller components/libraries which we
> use mainly at the python end of things.
>
> It might also be good to make some contribution to user tools such as
> Mozilla/Firefox and OpenOffice which are important in pushing and
> developing standards (and support for those standards) on which we depend.
It might be nice to bias the decision toward smaller, less well
financed, or projects with a large company or foundation behind
them. $500 isn't going to mean much compared to Sun or Google dollars
but might mean a core volunteer gets to attend a developer summit in a
smaller project.
Regards,
Mako
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