of course @upayavira I know Apache positioning. I didn't mean to involve Apache directly, just to offer some help to Wave's community. Thanks!
2016-11-29 18:54 GMT+01:00 Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk>: > Pablo, > > Many people are paid to work on Apache projects, but none of them are > paid *by Apache*. It has been a principle that goes back a long way that > keeps things even and avoids many conflicts. > > You are welcome to seek funding for your project. You are welcome to > seek funding to work on Apache Wave. As far as Apache is concerned, you > will just be another person paid to work on an Apache codebase - Apache > cannot give any special affirmation of your effort above those of any > other contributor. > > Does that make sense? > > Upayavira > > On Tue, 29 Nov 2016, at 11:50 AM, Pablo Ojanguren wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > SwellRT community is going to apply for the Mozilla Open Source Support > > grant (deadline tomorrow November 30th) > > > > The initial grant supporting SwellRT development has finished, so we > > require to find out new funding oportunities like this to keep a stable > > development effort to move SwellRT to a beta status. > > > > Our aim is to manage MOSS grant (or any other) through an independent > > organization specificly related with Open Source dev. > > > > In this context I would like to appeal the Wave community for... > > > > - invite any developer from the Wave community to get paid from this > > grant > > to improve Wave core codebase. > > - invite Wave community to suggest development task that could be > > included > > in the grant's scope that could improve Wave code base. > > - to ask Apache representatives if they would like to handle the grant. > > > > Any suggestion and advice is welcome. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Pablo >
