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Phishfry

Phishfry

Our Release Manager Mister Glen Barber is holding a gofundme to help him continue doing what he does.
www.gofundme.com

Supporting my roles in the FreeBSD Project, organized by Glen Barber

Hi, My name is Glen Barber. I am the current FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead,… Glen Barber needs your support for Supporting my roles in the FreeBSD Project
www.gofundme.com

I think we can all agree Release Manager needs to be a full time job.
I don't know what the appropriate amount should be but I am sure if everybody chips in we can continue our record of successful release launches.

Thanks Glen

I have shoved some loot your way.
 
For some reason, the gofundme web page (the donate part) didn't work in Firefox. Not a big problem, I also have ungoogled-chromium installed on my FreeBSD workstaton. It worked there.
 
As long as everyone who can (and think that this is a worthy goal) donates what they can afford, I think it will be fine.
 
Does the FreeBSD foundation not pass any of their funding his way?

I really appreciate his work but an ad-hoc funding page seems a little suspect. I hope I'm wrong!
 
I am glad this did not get locked. Thank You to our moderators.

First off I have never ever used gofundme. This was a first.

I really don't believe in digital panhandling.

I give to the United Way a good amount per year. Go see them if in distress.

But on the otherhand I want a FreeBSD 14 that doesn't get re-released because of a mess up.

So I gave money. I chose to use my name because I don't want a pat on the head but I want more than Anonymous.

We have a good bit of FreeBSD core developers @netflix and what do they make per year to support FreeBSD?
Even the old man himself is there.

We need greater diversity in my opinion. This provides it. Is $200K a laudable amount? I dunno is that per year?
This is strictly voluntary so it's hard complain.
I see it as a way to help a worker bee.
You can't say you don't use his work.
 
kpedersen said:
I really appreciate his work but an ad-hoc funding page seems a little suspect. I hope I'm wrong!
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It's in their commit messages as well, e.g.:
Code: 
commit 3f21d3e0babacabb9a32e0e9a8ab290025d5577c
Author: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
Date:   Mon Jul 3 15:28:33 2023 -0400

    release: update GCE configuration for python3

    Reported by:    asomers
    PR:             272354
    MFC after:      3 days
    Sponsored by:   GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/f/gjbbsd
 
I would like to see a real deal programmer like Andriy start a go fund me for a particular Arm board.
Make it fully supported. Make the work open to all after 2 month honeymoon. Supporters get early access.
That is what I would call 'Work from Home'.

Would it be enough to support his lifestyle I can't say.
Looking at the amount gjb@ has raised I would say things don't look good.
 
I would even have a Platinum Level.
Donate X and you get a board pre-loaded with FreeBSD and nice chassis..
 
Phishfry said:
I would like to see a real deal programmer like Andriy start a go fund me for a particular Arm board.
Make it fully supported. Make the work open to all after 2 month honeymoon. Supporters get early access.
That is what I would call 'Work from Home'.
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I see that as different, more like a Kickstarter: the creator wants something, but needs funding to get the project started.
While Gofundme is more like: I'm already doing something, it would be nice if I could get paid for it.
Of course, this difference could all be in my head.
 
The problem is the gofundme boards suck. They have no one to answer to. Crowdfunded boards sound ideal but they are not.

I am currently engrossed in Rockchip. I think one of those or SiFive new RISCV stuff would be where the market is heading.

Now if you said crowdfunding to support a developer to get us Wifi driver for AP62xx found on many arm boards I would say YES PLZ.
I will give to that. OpenBSD has the driver so its not out of reach.
AP6254/AP6255/AP6256
 
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