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2.1 KiB
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55 lines
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Dear reader,
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you are reading this document, because you saw that there is a new
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release of gpm available, gpm 1.20.2.
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Unfortunately this release is broken, but that's not a big problem.
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gpm is broken for some time and I did not spent any time to the project
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for about two years.
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Some weeks ago, I was contacted by someone asking me to write a very
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small feature for gpm (a small client program, included in this
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release). I answered the person that I do not have the time to code
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that part, but if he really insists that I should write that code,
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he should think about sponsoring me [0].
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Some days later I recieved an email that he wanted to sponsor me.
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I was a little bit surprised, because it was the first person really
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considering my sponsoring plans.
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So I coded that small program and had some views in the old code of
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gpm. There's so much information in it, so many hacks, so many dirty
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tricks and there are still many people using it.
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So I considered to try to spent more time to gpm, perhaps even creating
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a more clean (and better maintainable) version of it.
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But I _am_ actually a pretty busy person, working almost all time, if not
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doing sports (just about 6 hours a week) or sleeping.
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So I thought, perhaps you can help me to get more time for coding FOSS [1]
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in general or gpm in specific:
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My idea is, that if you consider sponsoring my work, I can begin to work less
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"traditionally" and also finance my second study in computer science, which
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I will begin in autumn 2008, if I have the money to do it (living in
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Switzerland is not that cheap).
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I am looking forward to get any feedback from you about this idea
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at nico-gpm-sponsoring (at) schottelius.org.
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Thanks for reading,
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Nico Schottelius, 12. May 2007
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P.S.: GPM is alive!
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[0]: Sponsoring information: http://nico.schottelius.org/about/support
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[1]: FOSS: http://nico.schottelius.org/documentations/foss/the-term-foss/
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