[Xapian-discuss] Xapian's 10th Birthday

[Kevin Duraj]

Olly,

Perhaps you could consider to make a donation button on xapian.org
site, that would allow users to donate money to cover Xapian open
source operation expenses, similarly as Eclipse foundation is doing.
It would make many users of Xapian open source  feel better if they
could give something back for good cause to help Xapian search engine
library to grow. Small donations are adding lot faster than finding
one big sponsor.

Cheers
  Kevin Duraj

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Olly Betts<olly at survex.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:50:01AM +0100, James Aylett wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:33:59PM -0700, Kevin Duraj wrote:
>>
>> > Let's have 10th year Xapian sprint in Las Vegas, Nevada,
>> > the rooms are very cheap now, everyone can afford it.
>> > Some hotels might even throw free meeting hall, if we ask.
>>
>> Us Brits still have the fuzzy end of the exchange rate though :-(
>
> A quick poke suggests it would cost me about US$1700 just for the
> flight from New Zealand, which is more than I can afford unless we can
> find a sponsor or perhaps arrange it adjacent to the GSoC mentor summit
> which I hope to be able to attend and is likely to be in October in
> Mountain View (California, USA).
>
> I think given the worldwide spread of both developers and users, it
> might be more feasible to try to have regional events and/or a virtual
> get together, but if someone wants to try to pull together a single
> physical meeting somewhere, I'm not averse to the idea.  Just bear in
> mind that hotel rooms are not the biggest expense for many potential
> attendees.
>
> Cheers,
>    Olly
>
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