Hi avi

this is a good idea. For me the main point is as soon as we get some 
bills with a reasonable title and item we can spend some money. I would 
go for a 6 months term. 120 $ basis

stef


On 29 mars 04, at 05:36, Avi Bryant wrote:

>
> On Mar 28, 2004, at 11:21 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:
>
>> Right now there is no legal structure to collect funds, so 
>> people/organization
>> cannot give money. I would like to buy Squeak3.7. I think that there 
>> is a difference between open-source and paying to get a good 
>> distribution. We should invent our own market.
>
> 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
>
>