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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:44:24 -0600
From:      "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
To:        "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?
Message-ID:  <ef10de9a0701101744n4084b181wdfa93e5202ee370@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <17829.6508.373404.263832@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On 1/10/07, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> 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?



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