[OpenAFS] Donate to The OpenAFS Project
Kris Van Hees
aedil-afs@alchar.org
Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:33:47 -0500
With the risk of posting a shameless plug, I'd like to mention that Sine
Nomine Associates provides the option to fund development aside from the
commercial support they offer. So, if there are specific projects you'd
like to see done, and you'd be willing to fund them, SNA would for sure
be interested in discussing that option. Facilitating development that
will benefit OpenAFS as a whole is a "good thing".
Email me offline if you would like to consider this option, and I'll get
things to the right people.
Kris
PS: I am an employee of Sine Nomine Associates, and therefore this can
be considered a plug. But I wanted to throw the opportunity out
there since it might not be know that SNA can facilitate this type
of work.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:24:13AM -0800, ted creedon wrote:
> 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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