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Re: kawa paid support
- From: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- To: Alcides Flores Pineda <alcides dot fp at gmail dot com>, Kawa Mailing List <kawa at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 23:51:25 -0700
- Subject: Re: kawa paid support
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- References: <5519D688 dot 7080704 at bothner dot com> <5520C199 dot 9010705 at gmail dot com>
On 04/04/2015 10:01 PM, Alcides Flores Pineda wrote:
Hello Per:
Do you have a PayPal account or something alike? If you do, please,
let us know.
I do have a PayPal account, linked to per@bothner.com
I don't want to mislead anyone: I'm far from destitute, and I could
probably afford to retire with some modest belt-tightening and/or selling
of assets. But some of these assets (properties) have emotional
attachment. My husband and I would feel more comfortable if money was
coming in at least approaching the rate of money going out ... (For example
property taxes and health insurance are substantial fixed expenses.)
Maybe you can put a link to it in your blog or somewhere. I'm
thinking about possible ways you can begin making money through
Kawa... I don't know maybe also trying to do something more or less
what Xah Lee is doing in his blog
(http://www.ergoemacs.org/emacs/blog.html selling his
writings/tutorials) or maybe is time for us, the Kawa community to
start getting more formally organized and begin to financially
contribute to the project, search for sponsors, setup a wiki, collect
and share our experiencies using Kawa, compile/write an e-book, write
an emacs kawa-mode, speak & blog about Kawa, port libraries from
other Schemes, and so on... well just some thoughts.. and my 2
cents...
It would be nice if Kawa wasn't a mostly-one-man project.
Of course other people contribute in various ways, and that is
very much appreciated, but 90% of the source code and documentation is mine.
Much of that is my own fault - I have some control-freak tendencies, and
I'm not very good at publicity. But I think we're getting better:
Multiple people have contributed code, documentation, and tests; multiple
people are writing about Kawa, and using Kawa in interesting ways,
Thank you very much for creating Kawa and for all the great work you
have done with this project.
You're all welcome.
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--Per Bothner
per@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/