[Klug-general] FLOSS donation

[James Morris]

On 31 May 2011 19:09, David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I'm doing my homework.
> Are there any lists/documents on projects that are or
> aren't already sponsored? For example projects like Firefox already have
> some commercial financial backing.
>
> What about the kernel project itself?
Doesn't it already have lots of commercial/corporate support?
See (2007): http://lwn.net/Articles/247582/


> The GNU foundation?

Possibly, maybe... But wouldn't a smaller project gain more benefit
from our donation?


> Previously mentioned applications:
>
> Jedit (http://www.jedit.org/) great cross platform text editor with loads of
> plug-ins.
> There was also a suggestion of nano but a donation link couldn't be found at
> the time.
> Someone also mentioned a mobile phone thing but I think it was an OS (now no
> longer active).
>
> Recent tech talks:
>
> Fluxbox http://fluxbox.org/
> OpenVPN (I think commercial backing already)
> HGD (Does this count as April
> KLUG?) http://canthack.org/2011/02/unveiling-hgd-the-hackathon-gunther-daemon/
> SVN (I think already commercially backed)
> Gnome 3 (I think already commercially backed?)
> Unity
> EvilWM (We haven't had this talk yet)
>
> How does this compare with other peoples notes?


I'd rather  put forward XFCE for the vote.

James.