From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 22 12:31:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C80E106568B for ; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:31:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivoras@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f209.google.com (mail-ew0-f209.google.com [209.85.219.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D05D8FC13 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:31:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy5 with SMTP id 5so1898270ewy.36 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:31:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=AK1Rq5vJznlKdydXgF024MoNKiUlEGrGAC+qvesng2g=; b=RfvaSQYHxBrAeNKcQ/s5IcNrde7R7haiw5Mo9EaoWmxom7lty3Xn8allHKSBTRAcVR 5bDH74ec3hZTlXwAjzkgFT0/UtpEFf/UO/g8zXsNTEttubgYlPc2g+unPn7ILMHtYS7B o1XbJ12Srgr14yIT6S4tlfhVykN15wuydDMZw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=QhAL2EvRcLi/4uZ/TjmU/G+vOypIPjTWXoEt4S9qE8OL86Ec624JYXpe1lnFMX5Psp W7xEJbj15J1WCX8G0IySUuDARQN7zDS2xOMT5vB+YhrLHKugBlMMbM5P+/oSR5Fo6xI1 cvcRXRbyc40CZoCstXm1uvmepQ7i7//Ioi+hA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: ivoras@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.73.85 with SMTP id u63mr468845wed.37.1250942914228; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:08:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <77abe410908211256g44dd20d8o9b50c20357e63a6b@mail.gmail.com> References: <77abe410908211256g44dd20d8o9b50c20357e63a6b@mail.gmail.com> From: Ivan Voras Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:08:14 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: e15ca0f3dfedba34 Message-ID: <9bbcef730908220508q65e460e9mc73c5840d41a1723@mail.gmail.com> To: Florian Heigl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finishing up the xen port - would funding help? X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:31:28 -0000 2009/8/21 Florian Heigl : > I'll scratch up $150 (or the same in hardware), so if a few more people and > 1-2 companies chime in it might be enough to make: > NO new features, just fix it and properly merge it into the amd64 and i386 > archs. I'd like to see things get going for Xen as well and could probably gather some money from myself and other users and companies I know about locally (probably up to $500), but probably only if dom0 will be included, as I'm not particularly interested in domU. OTOH, domU is better than nothing... If the Xen-savvy developers get interested, I could also donate time and probably resources to create a coordinating web site. Everyone should keep in mind two things: 1) It's doubtful that there will be as many interested people that would donate to accumulate more than about $1000-2000, I think, which isn't much for the complexity of the work. There should really be some businesses interested simply because they can probably invest more money. 2) Individual monetary contributions cannot be by default handled by some proxy person (without much legal footwork); they will need to go directly from the source to the developer. Probably the best idea would be for the developers to set individual Paypal accounts. (for example: one person, or the Foundation, cannot gather money for such a project and then transfer it in bulk to developers).