[kwlug disc.] FLOSS Fund thoughts

[Bob Jonkman]

Jeff Atwood describes a bad outcome of a good idea:  FLOSS Fund 
contributions that don't actually get used.

I'm not sure if he donated to a project that actively advertises its 
willingness to accept contributions; I would expect any project that 
does so would know what to do with the money.  I sure hope our 
contributions don't meet the same fate.

--Bob.


http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001158.html

Is Money Useless to Open Source Projects?

In April I donated $5,000 of the ad revenue from this website to an 
open source .NET project. It was exciting to be able to inject some 
of the energy from this blog into the often-neglected .NET open 
source ecosystem.

[...]

I was crushingly disappointed to find out the $5,000 in grant money 
has been sitting in the bank for the last four months, totally 
unused. That's painful to hear, possibly the most painful of all 
outcomes. Why did we bother doing this if nothing changes?

[...]


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