Re: sponsorship

On 2/27/07, Robert Staudinger <robert.staudinger@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/26/07, Markus Lutzer <m.lutzer@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> > I'm interested in deploying Abiword and therefore would like to know who
> > is sponsoring Abiword. Who are the developers? Are most of you
> > individuals, working for Abiword privately or are you coming from
> > enterprises? Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Basically AbiWord is developed by a group of dedicated volunteers in
> their spare time. Half a dozen or so do regularly submit patches, that
> means roughly once a month or more.
> However, different types of sponsoring have been taking place in the past e.g.
> + Contracting of individual developers for the implementation of
> desired features like "mail merge".
> + Code donations, like significant work on the ODT filters by a
> Nokia owned company.
> + Participation in Google's "Summer of Code" program.
>
> If you are considering to contract/sponsor developers yourself, please
> announce details on the development mailing list (subscription info:
> http://www.abisource.com/developers/ )
>
> In case you don't want to be that public you may consider contacting
> one of the maintainers listed in the CREDITS.TXT file (
> http://www.abisource.com/viewcvs/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/abi/CREDITS.TXT?rev=HEAD
> ) under either of "project maintainer", "stable maintainer", "platform
> maintainers". Email addresses may be outdated so visit the #abisource

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Received on Tue Feb 27 00:18:27 2007