[Gambas-user] Gambas fundation ?

[Benoit Minisini]

Le Lundi 4 Août 2003 22:00, Benoit Minisini a écrit :
> Hi, Gambas community,
>
> I have a important news !
>
> Suspense...
>
> I want to create a sort of Gambas fundation to collect gifts.
>
> == WHY ? ==
>
> Some people, (two, or three) wanted to give me money.
>
> Many people help Gambas by providing code, translations, Wiki server, help,
> etc... Giving money (a little) could be a way for people without technical
> skills to help the project.
>
> Here the two proposals I received:
>
> One, a Croatian people, wants some functionnalities in Gambas, and want to
> give me money for that.
>
> A second, a Indian people, wants to sell Linux boxes with gambas, and
> wanted to give money to the people who develop Gambas.
>
> The two cases are different : the first is paying me for a (not really)
> specific functionnality, and the second is helping the community in
> general.
>
> Of course, as the creator and main developer of Gambas, helping me implies
> helping the project !
>
> On the other hand, helping the community by giving me money implies a
> responsability : I cannot do what I want with money given for "every gambas
> developer". I'm not the sole developer !
>
> == WHAT FOR ? ==
>
> For example, I could use the gifts to do the following :
>
> - Buying VMWare.
> - Buying an ADSL access, so that I can download the last version of any
> distributions. (I have a 56K modem)
> - Buying SuSE 8.2, or other distributions I can't download.
> - Debugging Gambas on all these systems.
> - ...
>
> Note: The Croatian people would like a tool that install gambas
> automatically on a system, so that he could distribute gambas project
> easily. So the need to have VmWare and every Linux system possible.
>
> == HOW ? ==
>
> I will publish my own bank account international coordinates : they are
> just two codes, the IBAN code and the SWIFT code.
>
> With these two codes, everybody in the world can transfer money on my bank
> account.
>
> I want this "fundation" to be transparent, so every gift will be public and
> published on the web site, with the name of the giver (unless he wants to
> be anonymous). And every money spent will be published to on the web site,
> with the date, the object, and the amount of the expense.
>
> There will be only one account (at the beginning), but the money of the
> fundation will be completetly separated.
>
> == AND ? ==
>
> I want the opinion of everyone on this mailing-list : what you think about
> that, if you have other ideas, if you plan to give money, and so on...
>
> I hope you will find this idea useful ! :-)
>
> Regards,

And sorry for the english mistakes !

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Benoit Minisini
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