<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">On Dec 5, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Mark Doliner <</span><a href="mailto:mark@kingant.net" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">mark@kingant.net</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">> wrote:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br class=""><blockquote type="cite"> If we receive a $20,000 USD donation, are you likely to vote in favor of<br>paying Tomasz $20,000 USD for various work to-be-determined by<br>
us+Pidgin devs+possibly Adium devs?<br></blockquote></div><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">
Much as John expressed, I would vote for this and also in favor of any legitimate corporate sponsorship of contributions that are guided by us and the project communities.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">(I sent this originally 12/7/13 but we had an issue with my emails not reaching the list).</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">-Evan</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 6:49 PM, John Bailey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rekkanoryo@pidgin.im" target="_blank">rekkanoryo@pidgin.im</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 12/05/2013 01:21 PM, Mark Doliner wrote:<br>
> Our donor contact confirmed this amount. Revised question: If we<br>
> receive a $20,000 USD donation, are you likely to vote in favor of<br>
> paying Tomasz $20,000 USD for various work to-be-determined by<br>
> us+Pidgin devs+possibly Adium devs?<br>
<br>
</div>I see no problem with this and would vote in favor of IMF accepting and<br>
disbursing funds to Tomasz. If a similar offer came for another established<br>
member of the community, whether from Google or another corporate sponsor, I<br>
would be in favor of it as well.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
John<br>
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