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New Funding For Free Software In The UK

Posted by timothy on from the money-is-good-stuff dept.

AFFS writes "A new free software grants fund is available to projects in the UK from money raised by the UK Free Software Network UKFSN.org, the free software ISP set up by Jason Clifford in 2003, and donations to UK's Association for Free Software AFFS. The grants are open to any free software project or related campaign, by both individuals and groups."

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  1. Join UKFSN (ISP) to help the fund along by sepluv · · Score: 4, Informative
    FTR, if you sign up to the UKFSN as your ISP, all the profits will be donated to this AFFS fund.

    They're also a really good ISP and not any more expensive than other UK ISPs.

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    1. Re:Join UKFSN (ISP) to help the fund along by I+confirm+I'm+not+a · · Score: 2, Informative

      They're also a really good ISP

      I'll unreservedly second that. I'll also add that their hosting packages include Python (as well as Perl and PHP), yet are priced to compete with "basic" packages. Finally, Jason Clifford bent over backwards to help me when I was having problems migrating from my previous ISP.

      all the profits will be donated to this AFFS fund.

      Oops, almost forgot: UKFSN publish their accounts online. I believe "the management" were less than impressed with similar outfits promising to support Free Software, and then not being particularly transparent.

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