Re: rewarding the good Open Source work :)

[admin4]

ok thought it through...

... the idea was, to reward those, that add value to society/all of mankind.

but then some might feel treated unfair? (because all work in this field 
is valuable, from coding, to compiling, to packaging, to documentation 
"howtos")


and all that contributed to Debian before 2023 would have to be granted: 
~ 10 Billion USD to make it fair.



 Value

"The cost of developing all of the packages included in Debian 5.0 Lenny 
(323 million lines of code) has been estimated to be about US$ 
8 billion, using one 
method based on the COCOMO  
model.^[246] 
 As 
of 2016, Black Duck Open Hub  
estimates that the current codebase 
 (74 million lines of code) 
would cost about US$1.4 billion to develop, using a different method 
based on the same model.^[247] 
 ^[248] 
 "


money can't buy love

On 5/10/22 22:02, admin4 wrote:

Dear Debian Developers,

the idea is to reward the good Open Source work :)

What about (could do that in PHP) reward system, that logs/makes 
transparent, what developer-contributor, contributed how much "work" 
(meassured in hours/lines of code/but also votes (rating the quality 
of the commit?))


and then give out rewards accordingly... ?

(can be money, could be hardware donations, could be club mate?)

(maybe every developer-contributor can make a "wishlist" and Debian 
tries to make that happen according to donations X-D)


what does thee think?

(probably not the first someone had that idea)


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   connect the people

Bug#1010976: ITP: swaykbdd -- Per-window keyboard layout switching daemon for Sway

[Sepi Gair]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Sepi Gair 
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name: swaykbdd
  Version : 1.1
  Upstream Author : Artem Senichev 
* URL : https://github.com/artemsen/swaykbdd
* License : MIT (Expat)
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : Per-window keyboard layout switching daemon for Sway

Simple keyboard layout switching daemon designed to run in a Sway
session and remember keyboard layout on a per-window basis.

KBDD-like daemon keyboard layout switching daemon designed for Sway WM.

Re: Firmware: Scope of non-free-firmware

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 07:38:18PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> I'd say that closed encrypted signed firmware that you need to load on
> every boot is strictly more free than the same firmware burned into ROM.

Not necessarily. Firmware-as-software and firmware-as-hardware are
covered by different laws. You can disclain warranty on software but not
on hardware. You can resale hardware but not software license, etc. This
has real implication.

Companies have legal incentives to move from hardware to software license,
which are not to the benefit of the users.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. 

Imagine a large red swirl here.

Bug#1011001: ITP: picplanner -- GTK application for photography planning

[Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras 
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name: picplanner
  Version : 0.1.0
  Upstream Author : Zwarf 
* URL : https://gitlab.com/Zwarf/picplanner/
* License : GPL-3.0+
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : GTK application for photography planning

A GTK application for photographers
tracking the movements of the Sun, Moon and the Milky Way.
Given a position on Earths surface and a time
it can calculate where the other celestial bodies are,
if they are visible
(and in which direction)