...on Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 02:20:08PM -0500, Peter Fraser wrote: > I recognize that government grants come with red-tape, and people are > often disdainful of taking "hand-outs". In this case, however, I'd > think the pros outweigh the cons. Don't you have a wish-list of things > you'd implement or improve if you got sufficient funding?
I don't think it's a viable path for the project as a whole, although it may be remotely possible to get funding for certain development goals. It still takes away lots of freedoms, and needs some people who find fun in hacking organizational structures instead of coding. The PyPy people (http://pypy.org/) had a presentation on how they went for EU funding, http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/557-Paper_OpenSourceEuFundingAndAgileMethods.pdf Start reading on page 3, "How and why EU funding", and maybe replace the term "sprint" with "hackathon". Then, have a look around here and think again... Nah. Alex.
