Re: [mv] Raising Money

[Birgitt Funk <birgitt@minivend.com>]

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On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Pmail wrote:

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> > Birgitt Funk raises some interesting thoughts re documentation.
> > * If there was a good book on Minivend, I'd buy it.
> 
> This could be an alternative method of raising money for documentation work.
> 
> http://linuxfund.org/about/
> 

So, should one try to ask the MiniVend package to be considered for
support through the "Developers Fund" ? Should a letter signed by
many MiniVend users be formulated ? I guess one has come up with
some good reasons as they seem to be very OSS-development centered ?

Who knows more about this fund ? I think it is interesting.

> The Linux Fund has been established to further Open Source software
> development.  It is a very interesting project with potential.  Check it out
> and see what you all think.
> 
> I believe Mike's work is above par and deserves recognition as one of the
> best Open Source projects being actively developed.  The best way to show
> support, IMHO, would be for O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. to publish a book on
> the subject of MiniVend.  Hey Perl, Sendmail and a host of others have one.
> MiniVend could use a book published by the best publishers of Linix/Unix
> software out there.

Do yoy know Tim O'Reilly ? May be we should send him a letter too with
a couple of hundred signatures... 8-). 

Birgitt


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