From: "David A. Black" Date: 2004-07-09T21:13:44+09:00 Subject: Re: speeding ruby development Hi -- On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: > Hi, > > In message "Re: speeding ruby development" > on 04/07/09, "David A. Black" writes: > > |I think actually supporting someone on a full salary would be very > |hard or impossible, just because of scale, but I certainly foresee > |Ruby Central serving as a kind of clearinghouse for support for > |projects (beyond RubyConf, that is) once the tax-exempt status comes > |through. (Maybe we're being too pessimistic about people and > |companies donating on a non-exempt basis (?), but that's been our > |judgement so far.) > > If it's not too hard, start accepting donation without tax deduction, > just because we, non USA citizens will not get the deduction anyway. > I can donate some for this year's RubyConf, which I can not help by > attending. Not hard at all; we're all set up with our PayPal account (acct@rubycentral.org). I didn't mean to be so informal about announcing it :-) but I do agree with your point about going ahead, so there it is. And if anyone knows of a company that might want to sponsor the Conference or other activities connected to Ruby development and/or advocacy, please contact me. We will in fact proceed in slightly more formal stages as we go, but meanwhile the opportunity is certainly there. David -- David A. Black dblack@wobblini.net