Re: [Haskell] Who pays for *.haskell.org machines?
Hello Malcolm, Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 1:55:43 PM, you wrote:
In addition, we are in the process of setting up a separate server called code.haskell.org
thank you, it's all are great news. some questions: when you plan to make code.haskell.org available? is its funding will be reliable? for example, if we don't get money from Google in 2008 year? i hope that this server will be established as comfortable place for collective work, including wiki, bug tracker, darcs, so on, so on -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com
In addition, we are in the process of setting up a separate server called code.haskell.org
when you plan to make code.haskell.org available?
When it is ready. Wait for further announcements.
is its funding will be reliable? for example, if we don't get money from Google in 2008 year?
No funding source is ever secure. With existing and promised money, we have enough to keep *.haskell.org running for at least a couple of years into the future. If that ever dries up, then the community will have to think of something else.
i hope that this server will be established as comfortable place for collective work, including wiki, bug tracker, darcs, so on, so on
That is the plan. Regards, Malcolm
is its funding will be reliable? for example, if we don't get money from Google in 2008 year?
in irc some time ago i brought up the topic of something like the freebsd or wikimedia foundations, but for haskell. if you can give me a secure and trustworthy method of payment, and as a bonus, a tax receipt (what is known as "501-c-3" status in the US), i will gladly start writing checks on a yearly basis. i am sure others would join me.
is its funding will be reliable? for example, if we don't get money from Google in 2008 year?
in irc some time ago i brought up the topic of something like the freebsd or wikimedia foundations, but for haskell. if you can give me a secure and trustworthy method of payment, and as a bonus, a tax receipt (what is known as "501-c-3" status in the US), i will gladly start writing checks on a yearly basis. i am sure others would join me.
Similarly, the Perl community has a foundation, and I believe giving to it is tax-deductible. You could look in to how they do it. http://www.perlfoundation.org/
Bryan Burgers wrote:
Similarly, the Perl community has a foundation, and I believe giving to it is tax-deductible. You could look in to how they do it.
Setting up a 501(c)(3) foundation is a morass of paperwork. If people
within the US are interested in writing tax deductible cheques, a far
less onerous thing to do would be to look at the Software Freedom
Conservancy (http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/). This offers many
advantages not available to a small group, not least protection from
personal liability for individual volunteer contributors.
I've worked before with the lawyers and administrators at the SFC and
its parent organisation, the Software Freedom Law Center, and they are
wonderful, motivated people.
is its funding will be reliable? for example, if we don't get money from Google in 2008 year?
Some hosting companies, like http://turtol.com/ offer "pay once, keep forever." Would that be an option? Thanks, Greg
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Malcolm Wallace