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Are You A Friend of Gnome?

Posted by chrisd on from the tim-ney-is-the-funk-king-of-the-east-coast dept.

From the donation page: "Love GNOME? Want to give back to the community of mostly volunteer developers who have worked so hard to make GNOME the powerful, flexible, friendly, fun desktop that it is?" There are a number of contribution levels a person can join at, so if you love Gnome, consider helping the foundation out.

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  1. They need to provide more info by Tiamat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, I like gnome a lot. I might even donate money, but the problem with this link is they they don't offer any specific details about what happens with this money? Does it go to administration? How so? To major coders? which? Who qualifies? Bandwidth? Why does the Gnome Foundation do that requires our financial support?

    To make matters worse, contributions seem to be handled via Ximian. I have no problem with Ximian forming as a company, or their desire to make money. Still, I'm not entirely confortable with a donation to a company. So, is Ximian providing accounting/banking services here, or are they going to directly benefit from this contribution?

    I'm sure there are good answers to all of these questions, but they're not present on the donation page, and they should be.

  2. Alternative news story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Not to start a holy war, but:
    From the donation page: "Love KDE? Want to give back to the community of mostly volunteer developers who have worked so hard to make KDE the powerful, flexible, friendly, fun desktop that it is?" There are a number of contribution levels a person can join at, so if you love KDE, consider helping the foundation out.
  3. How come by SomeOtherGuy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Linus never asked us to pony up a little spare change for the kernel? Looks like he is doing pretty good for himself....

    If I learned one thing from my dad growing up it was when you start looking to make money from your hobbies then it's to much like your real job -- and maybe time to find a new hobby. Among his many hobby cycles, he restored old saddles and other antiques -- he would spend hundreds of hours on a project for little more than the money for materials and the gleam in his eyes when he finished a project -- when I told he he was crazy to not try to make money doing it -- he said something like "They pay me from 7 AM - 5 PM everyday to do something that has never been fun -- and if I ever have to take money from this it will mean that it has stopped being fun..." When he got burned out he would pick a new hobby.

    It never hurt to get a day job. That way you can make money to afford to spend the evenings and weekends doing things you enjoy.

    --
    (+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
  4. Re:hmm, donate $$ to Gnome or Perl? by GauteL · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This whole .NET stuff and GNOME just has to stop. It is just FUD.

    Ximian is backing Mono which if successful will become a nice OPEN SOURCE development platform for UNIX (and GNOME).

    The worst thing that could happen would be that Mono would not be able to run application made for .NET, but the development platform would still have plenty of value as a very nice (kind of) language independent development platform for UNIX, and GNOME. KDE could create bindings for mono as well.

    You don't have to use Mono at all for GNOME-development. It's just a (nice) alternative if you like a clean unified oo-API and would rather not deal with memory management.

    Mono also has nothing to do with the core of GNOME, apart that there are some GNOME-hackers working on Mono. Mono is not part of GNOME.

    Personally I like Java, and would like to see better Java-integration in GNOME, but mono looks pretty nice (and close to a Java-api for GNOME) as well.