[kwlug disc.] FLOSS Fund update

[Chris Bruner]

What's a mangler?

Unsolicited at gto.net wrote:
> <sigh>
>   
<snip>
> P.S. I would like to suggest this addendum ... at the meeting the manglers
> randomly choose an audience member to join their ranks that month. If that
> makes up an odd number of manglers, then a 2nd is chosen. We will trust the
> manglers to choose wisely and gain the chosen's consent. i.e. Not their best
> buddy, or at least not _every_ month, and not John, Richard, Paul, Charles,
> recent presenters, or any other high-visibility people. i.e. Drag a lurker
> into this small interactive involvement. [Usually the sucker, er, volunteer,
> will just say "Whatever you guys want."]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org [mailto:kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org] On
> Behalf Of Paul Nijjar
> Sent: December 14, 2006 8:05 PM
> To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> Subject: [kwlug disc.] FLOSS Fund update
>
>
> 	I think we might be able to start making contributions to the fund
> for January's meeting. I think I can secure a "fishbowl" (which will be an
> old chocolate-powder tin), and Andrew and Adam are anxiously waiting for
> people to give them money. The big barrier for me is figuring out how to
> select one of the nominated projects. So far we have:
>
> 0. Drupal (nominated by Chris B on the mailing list -- put this on the
> 	website!)
> 1. The FSF (nominated by Chris B some time ago on the mailing list -- put
> 	this on the website! I am sure they take donations but I have not
> 	looked for the link yet.)
> 2. Trixbox.org (nominated by Unsolicited on the mailing list -- put this
> 	on the website!)
> 3. Open Source Labs (nominated by me)
> 4. The Public Patent Foundation (nominated by Richard. He doesn't state
> 	that they accept donations, but they have a PayPal link) 5. CLUE
> (nominated by Richard, but I can't see whether they accept
> 	donations or not)
> 6. openstreetmap.org (nominated by Richard. They appear to accept
> 	donations via PayPal:
> 	http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenStreetMap:Site_support)
>
>
> 	So which project do we choose? How?
>
> 	We could choose this during the next meeting, but I would prefer
> knowing the selection beforehand so we can announce it on the announce list.
>
> --
> Paul Nijjar
> http://fairvotecanada.org/WaterlooRegion
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