On 11 févr. 06, at 16:16, Giovanni Corriga wrote:

> Il giorno sab, 11/02/2006 alle 11.47 +0100, stéphane ducasse ha  
> scritto:
>> By the way, I think that if someone or a group of people would step
>> in to fix this problem,
>> the foundation would really like to support this initiative with some
>> money.
>> Else I do not understand what is our role. So we could be a
>> consortium and create a money pot
>> for fixing this problem.
>>
>
> Would bounties be a good idea?

Explain to me how this would be working?
I really think that we should bootstrap soon.

Avi already said that he was interested in participating (bounties  
for speed up of MC).

> Also, if Google is going to hold another Summer of Code
> ( http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html ), the foundation could
> partecipate as a mentoring organization.

Sure. This is why we need a formal organization. To support  
cryptography package
registration and other actions.

Stef