On 2013/10/04 19:15:32 Thiago H de Paula Figueiredo wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm an Apache Tapestry committer and PMC member and very active
specially
> in the mailing lists.
>
> I'm at a period in which I have no job, no clients and I haven't started
> looking for a job again. So I have the schedule for that. But this free
> time cannot be free, because I, as everyone else, have bills to pay. So
I
> thought it would be a perfect time to run an fixed-funding IndieGogo
> campaign (Kickastart only allows USA citizens) to have me working
> exclusively on the Tapestry codebase and documentation for a month.
>
> If there are people actually wanting to fund that, I just didn't want to
> lose the opportunity before I get some other work and I don't have all
> that time to work on Tapestry itself again. Of course, I will still
> contribute to the project in the mailing list as usual and also some
code,
> but all that on my actual free (i.e time I'm not doing something that
> would earn me money or help me find paid work).
>
> From the Foundation point of view, is this allowed? From a community is
it
> something to be avoided? I'd take a lot of care to make sure nobody
would
> consider this potential campaign to be blackmail, just one way to say
> thank you and to help Tapestry, which has no backing company, progress
> faster.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
> Tapestry, Java and Hibernate consultant and developer
> http://machina.com.br
>
