On 28 February 2014 15:46, Donald Whytock <dwhyt...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Raphael Bircher <rbirc...@apache.org > >wrote: > > > Hi at all > > > > We allready talked about crowdfunding and generaly agree, that this will > > be a good idea. I will start at the next time a p'roject at a > crowdfunding > > platform to rise money for a LTS Version for 4.0.2. So we can still > support > > Mac OS X 10.6 downward. I plane to back port security fixes and really > > important bug fixes. The costs will be about $2000. This just for > > information. > > > > The big question is, how we handle such projects? My proposal: > > > > - Create a site with open / in programming / finished crowd funding > > projects. > > - Make a blog about it if the organizer whish that. > > Other Ideas? > > > > These crowdfunding activities would not be official acts of AOO or Apache, > right? Since (my understanding is) Apache doesn't support targeted > donations or paid development? > It cannot be official from neither Apache or AOO, ASF cannot and should not be involved in commercial activities. therefore we cannot hosts a site about crowd funding. rgds jan I. > > If they're outside/independent acts, wouldn't they be, for all practical > purposes, a subclass of third-party support vendors? > > Don >
