On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 07:45:09PM -0400, mmlacak wrote: > Neil, thanks for your answers. Pardon my ignorance, but > did you give them as an official SPI member? I didn't give them as an official response from the board of SPI, but it can be considered as officially the personal views of a board member of SPI :) > If so, may I ask you to reconsider accepting donations for any > developer and any project, not just supported ones. It is certainly something we can consider, but again I point out that this really isn't the right forum to do so. > I mean, there is no project which is set to financially support > general open source community. I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'general open source community'. Most developers who need funding seem to be attached to a project. > Your parent project, Debian, does this, only within its domain, that > is source code. Well, SPI is Debian's parent project, so I'm not sure what you mean by "my" parent project being Debian. > But, as much as Debian project contributes to an open source > community, it also draws much from the same. I'm not really sure about this. Have you got a example on how to draws resources away from the open source community? > So it seems to me that supporting only Debian and related projects is > one sided, and, in a long run, not in a best interests of both > community and Debian project. Well, SPI certainly supports more than Debian and it's associated projects. Have a look at http://www.spi-inc.org/projects > You can get only as much as you're giving away. Why give less, if you > could easily give more? This is possibly the crux of the matter: It's non-trivial to add more projects. Each one takes resources to manage the donations and account for them. To do this for a generic deveoper would be far beyond what we are able to offer. Regards, Neil -- * toresbe wonders what would happen if Ted Walther and Amaya were put in the same room <Amaya> toresbe: blood, sweat, tears and finally castration
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