November 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM, "Almudena Garcia" <[email protected] mailto:[email protected]?to=%22Almudena%20Garcia%22%20%3Cliberamenso10000%40gmail.com%3E > wrote:
> > Hi: > > It's a very interesting proposal. But we have to make care that the selling > have not problem with taxes and shipping. > > Currently, many of ours are european, and the shipping from USA includes > expensive taxes. > > About t-shirts and other merchandising, we can use RedBubble or other similar > platforms which sells to most regions in the world. I uploaded stickers > designs to RedBubble some months ago. I have not heard about them before. :) > About Richard Stallman publicity, it's a delicate issue: since some years > ago, Stallman has many enemies into the free software community, so it can be > problematic. Yeah, I'll poll people here. If the consensus is that it's not worth involving them, then we won't. > And, about the developer, we have to determine the exact tasks to make: bugs > solving?, solve rumpdisk problems?, improve rumpnet? UEFI support? ... > > And prepare so many docs and a tutor to help him/her in the work I would hope that we could hire a seasoned Hurd developer, so that they do not need a tutor. Are there any seasoned Hurd developers willing to give this a go ? Joshua > El domingo 2 de noviembre de 2025, [email protected] escribió: > > > > > Hey Hurd Family, > > > > I'd like to launch a Hurd fundraiser with the goal to hire a developer for > > six months to a year. I'm going to put down the first $1,000 for this. > > Are there any developers interested in working on the Hurd full time for > > 6 months to a year? > > > > How we get people to donate: > > > > I'll sell Hurd laptops. T43 - T200s, T400s, T500s, etc. Prices will > > range from $100 - $400. In the ideal scenerio, each laptop will dual > > boot the Hurd and perhaps Debian, so it will be a laptop that one can > > actually use. As we all know, the Hurd is not quite a daily driver yet. > > It would be great, if we could ship the new ext2 journal. It sounds like > > that is actually greatly making the Hurd's filesystem more reliable... > > > > We could even donate one to Richard Stallman, assuming he'd make a cool > > video endorsing our campaign. > > > > We could partner with guix-hosting.com to offer child-hurd VPSs. That's > > 100 euros per year. > > > > MAYBE, MAYBE, MAYBE, we could get the Hurd to run on a laptop that is sold > > by ThinkPenguin...and sell more modern laptops ? > > > > I've got access to some local used desktops. Dell Optiplexs. 7010s. > > Does anyone know if the Hurd would run on those? > > > > We could sell some T-shirts. There's a t-shirt company in town here that I > > could get on board. > > > > We could sell some usb sticks (which is hilarious, because the Hurd doesn't > > support USB)... > > > > We could sell CDs / DVDs. > > > > How else can we get people to donate? > > > > > > Whose the developer that we hire? What project should they try to complete? > > > > It would be nice if they spent some time cleaning up GNU Mach. It would be > > AWESOME if we had at least one language (other than C) that the average > > coder > > (that's me) could make Hurd translators. It would be great if > > "apt install *WEB BROWSER*" worked. There are several simple web browsers > > that > > work with minimal patches. Someone just needs to do a bit of work to make > > them > > installable via apt. Maybe this developer could retire netdde and switch > > the Hurd > > to using lwip. I think that would remove a lot of head aches for Samuel. > > > > > > Where do we host the campain ? > > > > The FSF could accept the donations. That's how guix is doing their current > > fundraiser. > > > > https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/fundraising-campaign-to-sustain-gnu-guix/ > > > > Do we do an indegogo campain? Kickstarter ? > > > > > > Thoughts? Suggestions? > > > > Your friend, > > > > Joshua Branson > > hurdos.com > > gnucode.org > > curiousfollowers.com > > > -- > Enviado desde mi dispositivo Sailfish >
