From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 11 01:44:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C892516A403 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:44:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D14813C442 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:44:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so266136uge for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:44:25 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fJLLFqd8qRyV9GRGaxlj4TVLqzPHD6SFmzoFOXaPwwvKWFireglN/LuTqD0K+akYWdUBQry0NbLRLDk/gY42bwdo0tqvkjUe+sW1wzqwW1gsEejirNdUIdTdXBe4LZWhacwTjIs/njovMmVS273XhgCsQaMmxXEroHjTGvYKRIc= Received: by 10.78.201.2 with SMTP id y2mr308013huf.1168479865052; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:44:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.118.10 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:44:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:44:24 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Robert Huff" In-Reply-To: <17829.6508.373404.263832@jerusalem.litteratus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45A2805E.7060000@ccstores.com> <20070109222558.GA75695@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070110003730.GA94711@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <45A48414.5080009@freebsd.org> <45a4a055.ENGhBM9hyCZ7EPyt%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <17829.6508.373404.263832@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:44:26 -0000 On 1/10/07, Robert Huff wrote: > > Nikolas Britton writes: > > > > For accounting/tax purposes, aren't salary and benefits just as > > > deductible as "contributions"? Hire someone qualified as your > > > own full- or part-time employee, and assign them to work on the > > > projects that you want to support. As just one example, that's > > > effectively Red Hat's entire operation AFAIK. > > > > Interesting... I'm not sure the owner would go for it > > though. Maybe a 1099 contractor. Would anyone in the group at > > large be interested in arrangements such as this? > > Consider looking up the developers who most recently worked on > the projects of interest; if they're not available, perhaps they > can recommend someone. > > > What kind of money (rate) would you expect if you got payed to > > work on stuff your already working on in your spare time? > > Unless you have a fairy godparent, expect to pay standard > commercial rates based on the task and the qualifications of the > programmer. > > Well that's just it... No way we could afford full rates, If we could we would hire someone off the street to program x, y, and z to are liking. I was talking about supporting someone who is already working on x, y, and z because they have an itch to scratch... To help them scratch that itch faster... What kind of funding would this type of person need?