Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software [LWN.net]

Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Posted May 18, 2011 10:08 UTC (Wed) by fb (subscriber, #53265)
In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software by pabs
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> Pretty sure most free software projects would prefer your time (for coding, translating, documenting, promoting etc) rather than your money. If you have more money than time, donate to things that require money.

I am pretty sure that there are a lot of people like me:
-- without much spare time;
-- with a fair amount of disposable income.

As always, convenience also plays a large role. I would certainly donate _more_ often to different projects if there was a "FOSS donate shop" that made it more convenient for me to donate for software I use a lot.

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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

Posted May 18, 2011 11:53 UTC (Wed) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

FWIW, there are some formal and informal processes. This is slanted toward GNOME, where I have most interaction.

The formal process I'm most familiar with is GNOME's "Friend of GNOME" stuff (http://www-old.gnome.org/friends/) and particularly their "Adopt a hacker" program.

Informally, hackers sometimes post their needs on planet gnome, e.g. when seif needed a new laptop and set up a paypal donation system so that those so inclined could pitch in. Some of the projects (e.g. zeitgeist) have a paypal donate button, and other hackers have things like amazon wishlists.

HTH!