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Should you ask developers for money? And other interesting fundraising dilemnas.

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What’s your vision of GNOME?

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https://reachrehab.co.uk/sutton-coldfield/ The GNOME Foundation's mission is to provide a free desktop accessible to everyone. Accessible regardless of their ability to pay, their physical ability or the language they speak. But I bet if you polled all 400 members of the GNOME Foundation and a few 1000 GNOME fans, you'd get a lot of different visions of

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Can free software transition to the web services world?

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How companies leave the community out of the conversation

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Supporting free software with grant money

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I recently started investigating how GNOME could fund projects with grant money. Will Ross sent me an email with a lot of good information and I’d like to share his experience with others in the open source software community. Will Ross is a project manager with Mendocino Informatics, a small healthcare technology consulting firm in

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Dries Buytaert’s rules for creating a great community

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https://www.hoptondentalsurgery.co.uk/complaints/ At OSBC last week I saw a great presentation by Dries Buytaert on how to build community. Dries is the founder of Drupal. The slides for his presentation (20 MB) include "Dries' 7 secrets" which I'll write about here. Dries started out by showing us how the Drupal community really is a community excited about

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Companies: fostering or controlling communities? An interview with Kim Weins

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