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Linux Foundation courts individual members (Linux-Watch)
Linux-Watch takes a look at the Linux Foundation's recent push for individual memberships. For $50 a year, individuals will receive a T-shirt and quarterly newsletter—they can also vote on and run for the board of directors. "According to the membership agreement, individual members are considered 'affiliate members,' rather than full members, and thus 'shall not have any of the rights and privileges of 'voting statutory members.'' However, as with Silver corporate members, Affiliate members will apparently collectively control a single seat on the LF board of directors."
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Linux Foundation courts individual members (Linux-Watch) Posted Sep 22, 2008 21:26 UTC (Mon) by glikely (subscriber, #39601) [Link]
Remember: it's not a career, it's a wardrobe.
Linux Foundation courts individual members (Linux-Watch) Posted Sep 23, 2008 2:10 UTC (Tue) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
Ever since the linux fund went adrift, I've been wondering how I can meaningfully monetarily contribute to Linux (if at all). Any comments on how useful they are? Obviously paying a few key hackers is useful.
Linux Foundation courts individual members (Linux-Watch) Posted Sep 23, 2008 10:24 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] I've been wondering how I can meaningfully monetarily contribute to Linux (if at all).Support a distribution company that employs some key hackers? Eg. you could buy their for-pay version, or support network (or whatever the company in question calls its moneymaker), even though you might not really need to.
taxes Posted Sep 23, 2008 10:30 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
Keep in mind that donations are *much* more efficient than purchases. With purchases, a cut goes on taxes, another for the packing and trasport or web commerce company, the marketing, etc. With donations (to the right organisations, see comment below), you can be more efficient and for some people you can get tax deductions from your government or matching-contributions from your employer.
Contribute where you think it matters Posted Sep 23, 2008 10:27 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] Thousands of programmers are already paid to work on GNU/Linux, and the corporate holders of Linux Foundation can fund more programmers at a whim. To make a worthwhile difference, I suggest contributing to an organisation that is doing the work we can't leave to the corporates. I donated to FSF and FSFE before I started working for FSFE. Working for them, of course I can be accused of being biased, but I do think that FSFE is doing great work and is worth supporting (<plug>joining the annual membership program FSFE's Fellowship is a good way</plug>) The corporates will not get rid of the software patent problem, and the corporates will not defend the public's general right to participate in development and distribution of software. FSFE does this at the European and global level (UN, WIPO, WTO, WSIS, WGIG).
Contribute where you think it matters Posted Sep 23, 2008 14:03 UTC (Tue) by dns (subscriber, #4239) [Link]
Contributing to essential efforts that are underfunded
is a worthwhile optimization, and the FSF and FSFE are a good choice.
But there is a "closer to home" choice: LWN.
I speculate that we would not be taking for granted today that set
Jon continues in the Kernighan tradition. Have others noticed how
Jon's continuing efforts are an "essential service" to the Linux
Contribute where you think it matters Posted Sep 23, 2008 14:16 UTC (Tue) by davi (guest, #18853) [Link] What about contributing directly to developers?Donation pledges An example
It's not dead yet! Posted Sep 23, 2008 23:44 UTC (Tue) by PO8 (guest, #41661) [Link]
I'm happily using my Linux Fund credit card. The organization was revived, by some local folks AFAIK, and is happily spreading funding to Linux developers. http://www.linuxfund.org/
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