[OpenAFS] Donate to The OpenAFS Project

[ted creedon]

If you're running a business you could fund people/projects directly. It is
a regular business expense. You may have to issue a 1099 at year end.

You could also donate directly to one of the universities but there may be a
% cut the institution takes off the top.

My impression from the Stanford conference is that many of the gurus do
consult. I expect that the fees would be very reasonable considering their
professional knowledge.

I'm personally looking for someone to do remote administration and setup of
Heimdal on my boxes. I'm presently using krb4/afs 1.2.11.

NX works very well although ssh -X -C would be adequate for secure logins.
(NX uses some additional X libs before it gets to ssh).

tedc

-----Original Message-----
From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org]
On Behalf Of Garance A Drosihn
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 12:35 AM
To: Esther Filderman; openafs-info@openafs.org
Cc: Tillman Hodgson; scanner@apricot.com; Eric Anderson
Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Donate to The OpenAFS Project

Hi Esther...

I was wondering if you found out to what extent we could earmark some
donations sent in via the Usenix page for OpenAFS.  I am not expecting some
absurdly-strict earmarking, where every penny must accounted for and go
exactly where I want it to go.  But I *would* like some feeling that my
contribution is going to encourage work on the platforms that I am actually
using.

I was reminded about this topic because of some people on one of the FreeBSD
lists.  They are looking for a good distributed filesystem for their FreeBSD
systems, and they at least claim that they'd contribute to OpenAFS, if they
had some confidence it would result in progress towards a reliable OpenAFS
client for FreeBSD...

I understand what you're saying about limitations on how much funds donated
to a 501c3 can be earmarked.  So maybe we can't earmark it in a strict
financial sense, but maybe we could at least "tag it"
as coming from someone interested in certain platforms?  Just something so
that the advisory board responsible the OpenAFS fund will know which
platforms have people who are seriously interested in OpenAFS.  I suspect
that they would like to know this, if for no other reason than to have happy
donors who then make additional donations as they see progress being made on
the platforms they care about...

I did take a quick look at the donation page.  From what I saw, it doesn't
have any kind of comment field that would be passed along to the people
responsible for allocating the money.  So, right now it is not even
*possible* for them to have any idea what platforms the donors are
interested in.  This seems less than ideal to me.

...but I really do understand how getting special instructions with every
little donation could cause way too many headaches.  Sigh.
Maybe we just have to look for some other way to encourage the exact
progress we are most interested in.


  - - - - - - -  [older messages:]
Back on Jan 26/2005, Esther Filderman wrote:
>I will look into it.
>
>Note that due to the nature of a 501c3, there are probably restrictions 
>on how or what earmarking can be done, if at all.
>
>e.
>
>
>On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote:
>  > At 11:34 PM -0500 1/25/05, Esther Filderman wrote:
>  > >
>  > >  http://www.usenix.org/about/openafs/ has all the information
>  > >  you need.  You can send a check to USENIX or you can make a
>  > >  secure, online credit card donation.
>  >
>>  This is a good idea.  Can we earmark donations at all?  I'm sitting  
>> in a office full of MacOS 10, FreeBSD and OpenBSD machines, and we
>>  (RPI) also use OpenAFS on some of our Linux servers.  Can we donate
>  > towards particular OS-platforms?

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
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