Am .01.2017, 05:31 Uhr, schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton <orc...@apache.org>:
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From: Peter Kovacs [mailto:legi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 19:39
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!
If a member can not collect for the hole project, I think the ASF should
do. That would be the simplest solution.
Can we ask the ASF what they think? Are they against a simple OpenOffice
development specific fund?
After all this is a end user product, not some IT component.
[orcmid]
It is possible that targeted donations might have an arrangement. They
would not be for small sums, I think.
It would be up to the AOO Project Management Committee to make such
requests.
However, there is a different aspect here. The ASF does not pay
developers. None. Not any. Of course, contributors might make their
contributions as part of their employment, but it is not paid by the ASF.
So targeted donations would pay for other things needed by the project
that are beyond what ASF normally provides.
Both of these factors are related to the non-profit status of the ASF
and how it defines its mission and what its policies are for achieving
that mission.
We talked through much of this probably one year ago.
Other projects do have downstream producers who create distributions or
forks and may be commercial. But they contribute back upstream, and may
have people who provide those contributions and work with the project on
fixes, etc.
I personaly don't believe in that model for Apache OpenOffice. There is no
need for a customized version of Apache OpenOffice. And the people who
fork, do it normaly to have there own product. They don't want to
upstream. But Yes, it is one model, who exist within ASF. Not that I'm
completely against this way... If someone finds a way, to generate money
to contribute back, it would be nice. But I don't think it's the right way.
I'm more with the payed feature model
We can dig up that conversation if you like.
I would be interested, where the discussion ends ;-)
Regards Raphael
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