How about I nominate Tomato/MLPPP for the floss fund. From <a href="http://fixppp.org/">http://fixppp.org/</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Nameless <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:goodgreen@gmail.com">goodgreen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><p>Fair enough I'm sure I can come up with a good one I had a good one yesterday too... it will come to me. </p><div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 30, 2011 11:25 PM, "Paul Nijjar" <<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:24:43PM -0400, Colin K wrote:<br>
> <br>>> Seems interesting enough. Bring computers not brainwashing. Anyways<br>>> talk it out its my first nomination of any sort for this and its not<br>>> a Floss one exactly but we've discussed over recent times that it<br>
>> seems our Lug seems to be evolving slightly.<br>>> <a href="http://ihackcharities.org/" target="_blank">http://ihackcharities.org/</a><br>> <br>> Boy. People are not making the nominations easy these days, are they?<br>
> <br>> I'm really excited that you are making a first-time nomination, and we<br>> currently only have one nomination in the queue (with three more<br>> nomination write-ups promised). And you are right that we have been<br>
> having discussions about what kind of organizations are suitable for<br>> the FLOSS Fund. <br>> <br>> But taking a quick look at this website it doesn't<br>> look like they are that into FLOSS for their projects. If you look at <br>
> <br>> <a href="http://www.hackersforcharity.org/computer-training-center/" target="_blank">http://www.hackersforcharity.org/computer-training-center/</a><br>> <br>> then you see they are offering mostly proprietary certifications for<br>
> their courses. <br>> <br>> Looking at our past nominations here: <a href="http://kwlug.org/node/459" target="_blank">http://kwlug.org/node/459</a> <br>> it looks like our nominees have all had something related to open<br>
> source -- either people working with FLOSS in some way, or donations<br>
> to political organizations working to protect the interests of FLOSS<br>> legally. I am not sure we want to stray too far from that. <br>> <br>> Given this, my vote would be that this group should not be a FLOSS<br>
> Fund nomination. But that is not a final judgement, and it would be<br>> good to hear what others (including members of the shadowy<br>> Cabal) think. <br>> <br>> That is not to say that the Hackers for Charity charity is not a<br>
> worthy cause, or that people in general shouldn't donate to it. <br>> <br>> In the meantime you could make an easier nomination! We could really<br>> use some more nominations!<br>> <br>> - Paul <br>
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