[Zope-dev] Funding, SourceForge

[Chris Withers]

Joachim Werner wrote:
> 
> My experience from EuroZope is that we would desperately need some paid
> "community workers". The Zope community seems to be much more professional
> than others, which means that there are not enough people with too much free
> time to run the infrastructure. Most of us contribute a lot, but can't
> afford doing even more without neglecting the day-to-day business.

Indeed. If I could get even partial fundign for just some of the projects I'd
like to work on (S(qu|w)ishdot, Indexer, Package Manager, CMF, ZODB) then I'd be
able to work on them _much_ more than I do now...

> We have discussed about that at most of the EuroZope meetings. But still
> nobody has had enough resources to start. We'd need a Zope-based site that
> has all the functionality of sourceforge and even more. 

What's wrong with SourceForge?

cheers,

Chris