Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation

[Quentin Mathé]

Le 30 sept. 04, à 14:19, Nicolas Roard a écrit :

> Le 30 sept. 04, à 04:53, Gregory John Casamento a écrit :
>
> > How would these funds be used?
> >
> > 1) They could be used to help promote GNUstep: posters, flyers, 
> > t-shirts,
> > whatever..
> > 2) they could also be used to compensate GNUsteppers part-time, or
> > 3) used to pay a company to contribute some code.
> >
> > I would like to know, at this point, what the community thinks of 
> > this.
>
> I am all for it.
> Sure, we could gather money via paypal accounts or via FSF (perhaps..) 
> ....
> But having a Foundation is probably much better, and provides more 
> visibility than
> paypal account :-)

I'm all for it too. A foundation dedicated to GNUstep is probably the 
best choice from the legitimacy and visibility points of view.

> And effectively, we could imagine compensate some developers like that 
> (if we got
> money, which is a bit optimist perhaps at this stage :-) , organize 
> bounties, etc..
> The only thing of course is to have a Foundation that we (as the 
> community)
> can trust :-) but I think if you (for example) create it, that's 
> perfect.

We trust you Gregory… :-)

Quentin.

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