Re: please join me in a prize for CTABLES

2011-06-18 Thread Juan Zuluaga
Excellent, please keep us posted. --- On Fri, 6/10/11, Ben Pfaff <> wrote: > > I spoke too soon: I just heard from FSF, and they plan > to introduce a > > program for funding coding of specific GNU projects. > They expect to > > have something ready in a month or so. > > That's great news!  I d

Re: please join me in a prize for CTABLES

2011-06-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jason Stover writes: > I spoke too soon: I just heard from FSF, and they plan to introduce a > program for funding coding of specific GNU projects. They expect to > have something ready in a month or so. That's great news! I did hope that they would come up with something, but I never really ex

Re: please join me in a prize for CTABLES

2011-06-09 Thread Jason Stover
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 02:19:02AM +, Jason Stover wrote: > > Thanks for the offer. For some time, I have been asking Free Software > Foundation to set up an account for PSPP to accept donations for > coding. I'm starting to think they'll never act on this. The other > alternative is for "us"

Re: please join me in a prize for CTABLES

2011-05-27 Thread Karel Novotny
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 14:33 +, John Darrington wrote: > Well thanks for the vote of confidence! > > However, it's amazing how rapidly good will can turn sour once money becomes > involved. > So I'm not totally against the idea of a defacto benevonent organization, but > it would > need to b

Re: please join me in a prize for CTABLES

2011-05-27 Thread John Darrington
Well thanks for the vote of confidence! However, it's amazing how rapidly good will can turn sour once money becomes involved. So I'm not totally against the idea of a defacto benevonent organization, but it would need to be reasonably carefully thought out. Issues that anyone involved in adm

Re: please join me in a prize for CTABLES

2011-05-27 Thread Karel Novotny
You've been providing excellent voluntary support for number of years that I followed and used the project (you and couple of your colleagues). So, if your core team of developers feel confident that you can administer the paypay account and retributions for specific requests without this turning i

Re: please join me in a prize for CTABLES

2011-05-26 Thread Renan Levine
Jason, I think FSF or Paypal is a great idea. I teach at a university and have limited teaching enhancement funds- or could apply for - some small grants ($100? $1,000?) that might be able to provide small amounts of money for people who have the programming know-how to develop some innovation

Re: please join me in a prize for CTABLES

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Stover
Thanks for the offer. For some time, I have been asking Free Software Foundation to set up an account for PSPP to accept donations for coding. I'm starting to think they'll never act on this. The other alternative is for "us" (whoever that should be) to set up something like a PayPal account, inde