On Fri 07 December 07 16:56, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > 'Tis the season for Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Winter Solstice, New > Year's, or whatever your favorite holiday is. It's a time to be > gracious and to remember to say "please" and "thank you", and also a > time for charitable giving. > > It's very hard--if not impossible--to reward the GnuPG developers for > their labors. To whom should a donation be given? To the user who > first spotted a bug, the other user who tracked it down precisely, the > developer who fixed it, the sysadmin who hosts the project? What about > to the mailing list, where so many questions get answered by people who > have no official connection with GnuPG whatsoever? > > There are no good answers to this. The best that can be done is to > issue virtual beer tokens, to say "thank you", and maybe to do something > for a charity with similar goals to that of the GnuPG crew. > > So: to all the developers, to all the bugfinders, to all the people who > patiently answer questions on mailing lists, to everyone who contributes > to signal and diminishes noise--thank you, very much, for making this > community as much fun as it is, and for your role in making GnuPG as > high quality a product as it is. Consider yourselves to all have a beer > token issued by me, payable on demand should we ever meet face to face. > > This year, as with last year, I will be donating to the Free Software > Foundation with a note that it's in thanks for the GnuPG Project. I > encourage anyone who is interested in doing likewise to take a look at: > > https://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom
I'd like to second all the above. Thank you to *everyone* and Happy Holidays to one and all! _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
