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On Tuesday 13 April 2004 23:12, Corey Shields wrote: |
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> you're spot-on here, Daniel. The co-op is a great idea.. I defended |
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> the core idea to a lot of people while you started to give it yesterday, |
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> yet it doesn't seem to fit too well in the Gentoo model. Seperating |
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> that will allow Gentoo to operate in the way that it does, yet also have |
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> a seperate group that can help to fund OSS development (not affiliated |
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> with Gentoo in any way other than the people starting it may be involved |
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> with Gentoo as well). I love the co-op idea** because it works a lot |
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> like LinuxFund only the people who pitch in the money have a say in |
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> where it goes. 'Tis why I've never given to LinuxFund thus far. |
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> Anyway, I commend you for saying this.. I think the idea took off a |
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> little too far for "version 1" ;) |
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I have a few ideas for the coop thingy, but before I post them I'd like |
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someone (drobbins?) to post a summary of any existing ideas/proposal (or at |
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least what in general people think when they hear 'coop'). The managers' |
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meeting log wasn't very clear on some issues (such as what if anything the |
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universities are doing). If there isn't anything written out clearly yet, my |
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rambling might still give a good idea to someone. |
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As for the NFP, personally I'm less interested in it, because (as Lance |
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pointed out) it tries to prevent future problems, while the coop addresses |
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existing ones - lack of funding linked to community feedback in FOSS |
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development. So I'd like to look at the coop possibilities. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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