On the future of LWN [LWN.net]

On the future of LWN

Posted Jul 26, 2002 18:38 UTC (Fri) by Gadeiros (guest, #1821)
Parent article: On the future of LWN

Dear LWN team.

It has been suggested yesterday already, but I didn't see it mentioned as option:

Why not ask some of the global Linux players like IBM, RedHead, SuSE etc.

LWN is an important online source of information. Every company in the Linux market should appreceiate this.

They employ developers (some well known ones) working on various parts of Linux.
Why shouldn't they employ people doing a Linux online mag ? Or if employment is not a viable option, at least some bigger, regular donations might be possible.

Wouldn't some kind of fund be a good idea ? All the Linux companies paying into a fund, out of which Open Source related work - like LWN - is paid !?

Maybe somebody has just to ask them...

Anyway, whatever happens... thanks for 4+ years of interesting information and commentary. Good luck for your future.

With kind regards,
Harald Henkel

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Asking companies for money.

Posted Jul 26, 2002 19:42 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Trust me, we've asked them. More than once. It's not a good time to be trying to find companies in a giving mood...

Asking companies for money.

Posted Jul 26, 2002 20:57 UTC (Fri) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]

Would it help if you were a non-profit organization?

You could then also apply for tax-exempt status like
Python Software Foundation:
http://www.python.org/psf/mission.html

The mission statement for LWN could be something like this:
--
LWN.NET is an non-profit membership organization
devoted to analyzing of open source technology and news and
publication of that information. It maintains an extensive
knowledge database on Open Source distributions, technologies,
their security faults, community events and changes in all
of them.

In short, LWN.NET is an educational public charity that provides
free, independent, most upto-date information to the public about
the publicly available IT infrastructure techologies.
--

I don't know whether this fits into your plans and it would
definately need quite a lot of byrocratic effort and would
take several months to go through. I think you could get
some help from PSF on the byrocracy part as they've already
gone through most of it.