[okfn-discuss] Setting up 2 Funds (for F/OSS and Open Knowledge)

Tue Jul 25 18:06:15 UTC 2006

Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
> <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.

I entirely agree. Any suggestions for particular projects. My 
suggestions here had just focused on the more 'obvious' tools/projects 
that we are using.

Regards,

Rufus