Re: It may sound stupid...

On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 15:00 -0300, Marcelo Sena wrote:
> I like the idea, although  I am not much of a contributor as well.
> 
> --
> "<Cheesy_Signature>"
> Marcelo Sena
> 
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> 
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Tanguy LE CARROUR
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear Hurd Community...mmm... Hi guys!
> > I've been following the Hurd for few years now.
> > Unfortunately I haven't (yet) been able to actively participate.
> > I'm not a good developper, and I don't know much about Micro Kernels.
> > Still, Hurd is (with Coreboot) my favorite Free Software project and
> > I'm really sad not having more time to help!
> > So recently I made a decision. If I have not time to work on it, maybe I
> > should
> > pay someone to do it for me?
> > Maybe not a full time job (I'm not B.G.), but if some people would
> > invest couple of hundreds $/€ per year it could make a difference!?
> > Maybe the idea sounds stupid, but recently I registered to FlattR to
> > "support"
> > projects that I like and I realized that I'd never paid [1] for all the
> > things that
> > the Free Software Community had given me those past 10 years.
> > I could give this money in cash, using FlattR [2] (you do need a flattR
> > button on your website [3])
> > or even by buying some stuff on amazon wish list. It doesn't really matter.
> > We could even pool the money and "buy" one coding week for one of the
> > developper.
> > The thing is to show you guys that we believe in you and in the project and
> > that
> > we are willing to support your effort.
> > I hope that this e-mail doesn't sound too...[4]...much.
> > Thanks again for all the good work you've done so far.
> > Tanguy
> >
> > [1] As a member of the FSF since 2007, I've paid quite a lot! :-)
> > [2] And I will as soon as possible "flattr" the guys form ArchHurd!
> > [3] Actually, Hurd could use a more "sexy" web site and more visibility.
> >     I was quite surprised to read about the Hurd on the Debian web site
> >     [http://www.debian.org/intro/about#what], we don't hear a lot about the
> > project :-(
> > [4] Sorry, bad english! :-) Don't know the proper word to say what I have on
> > my mind! :-)
> >
> 


Indeed its a good idea.
I appreciate your efforts.

regards
Pasha