Hi, After watching a talk from PyCon Australia, which I came about through the blog by Krace, I was thinking about the problem of funding free and open source software. I highly encourage you to watch it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY8B2lXIu6g
By a recent mandate of Government of India, all the companies which have an annual profit of more than 5 crores have at spend least 2% of the profit of last three years as Cooperate Social Responsibility (CSR). This mandate came into power from April 2014 and there is quite a buzz about it. 2% of 3 years profit is huge amount and this is a great opportunity for us to direct this money to fund Free and Open Source Software. We ask Software Firms in India to give their CSR money to Python Software Foundation of India (PSSI) or maybe to FSF India. And these organizations can use this money to set up fellowships and grants to hire software developers to work full time on important, I would prefer existing, FOSS projects. I think it will also be easier to give a business logic to fund FOSS, because FOSS often builds up the basic infrastructure on which all these new tech startups/IT firms base their work upon and better FOSS will make things easier for everyone. So, what do you think about it? People who have been involved with organizations like PSSI and FSF India can you tell us more about their workings, funding and basically what do they do and how do they operate. Also do you think it will be feasible to get other software foundation from the US, like FSF, PSF or NumFocus to get directly involved in this kind of funding? -- Harsh Sent from a GNU/Linux _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
