Re: [Dragora-users] Can FSF sponsor Matías

[Matías Fonzo]

El 2024-01-04 05:26, Jing Luo escribió:
> Hola Matías,

Hola Jing :-)

> I am sad to see your personal life is preventing you from working on 
> Dragora. We all know how life can be very difficult, and I'm sure we 
> will all understand whatever decision you make. But to do my best to 
> save Dragora, I sent an email to info@gnu to ask FSF if they can 
> sponsor you financially, like how FSF sponsored Ian Murdock of Debian, 
> 30 years ago. Here is the copy of the email:

Thank you for your concern.  Writing or requesting financial support 
like from the FSF or SPI is something I tried in the past, from what I 
understand the FSF can help you with spreading or promoting a project 
but not with money itself, at the time, the FSF was requesting money 
from distributors for using or distributing GNU software they support, 
so my request didn't result in something favorable, let's put it that 
way.

I understand that things have changed, so I'll be curious to see what 
they say.  Anyway, I have no illusions, surely they already have more 
important things to support (with money, etc.).

The FSF or whoever may also wonder why the Dragora community is not 
supporting Dragora, and that's because Dragora has donation channels[1] 
from quite some time ago.  But I am not the one to demand anything from 
anyone, I just try or tried to express my financial discomfort regarding 
the country I live in, my situation with my family, and the time it 
takes to continue with something like Dragora, that's all.

[1] http://dragora.org/en/donate.html


Thanks.

> On 2024-01-03 21:14, Jing wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > The only maintainer of Dragora GNU/Linux-libre wrote to the mailing 
> > list [1] saying the things quoted below.
> >
> > [1] 
> > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/dragora-users/2023-12/msg00002.html
> >
> >
> > On 12/18/23 07:03, Matías Fonzo wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > The problem is that I am not working in Dragora, nor do I know if I 
> > > will be able to continue to do so or maintain it. As there are no 
> > > people financing the project or people supporting it with donations, 
> > > it is difficult for me to dedicate time to it since I live (with my 
> > > family) in a highly corrupt country.  On the other hand it is true 
> > > that more people are required to maintain a distribution project.
> > >
> > > [...]
> >
> > I wonder if FSF can finacially sponsor Matías Fonzo's work, like how 
> > FSF sponsored Ian Murdock of Debian 30 years ago. Dragora is a unicorn 
> > in all of libre distros, if I were a good programmer I would really 
> > love to help.
> >
> > Happy GNU year.