From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2002-01-28T11:17:48+09:00
Subject: Re: open source projects, sponsoring

"Tobias Reif" <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> wrote in message
news:3C548C9B.5040306@pinkjuice.com...
> Hi;
>
> would it make sense to setup a Wiki page for exchange of sponsoring
offers?
>
> Open source developers could post proposals for projects, and companies
> could post descriptions of projects they would sponsor.
>
> Projects could include general tools like libs, frameworks, and other
> reusable applications
> (as opposed to custom development for one client task).
>

My memory is defective, but I recall at least two such initiatives during
the "boom" time a couple of years ago.  It seems like one of them was
sponsored by Hewlett Packard.  Anyone know what I'm talking about?