John M McIntosh wrote:

> Well there is the Smalltalk Industry Council (STIC) which quite a few  
> people have membership ($) in.
> This does help fund things like Smalltalk Solutions 2004. However I  
> don't think they provide any Smalltalk/Squeak jobs directly, 
> indirectly  perhaps.
>
> Perhaps one should send their $50? to STIC and then $20 to the squeak  
> foundation?
>
You can also send some money to ESUG and/or attend to the conference

Noury

> On Mar 28, 2004, at 7:36 PM, Avi Bryant wrote:
>
>>
>> This is extremely vague and probably silly, but would it be at all  
>> useful to start a sort of "squeak of the month club"?  Anyone who  
>> wanted to join would pledge, say, $10 or $20 a month to go towards  
>> squeak-related development, and we would have some kind of voting  
>> mechanism to allocate the funds to specific projects each month.   
>> Rationally I realize this isn't much different from a bunch of  
>> individual $20 donations, but somehow I think people would be more  
>> likely to participate in something organized than just choose out of  
>> the blue to send someone a cheque.  And it might motivate us to get 
>> a  structure in place that would allow us to accept larger-scale  
>> contributions later on...
>>
>> Do any other open source projects do something similar?
>>
>> Avi
>>
>>
>>
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