[FM Discuss] some good news (Please identify OSI)

[adam hyde]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 10:18 +1100, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
> 1. Congrats/Awesome
> 2. Just for the record, it's actually "The Open _Society_ Institute",
> not the Open Source Institute. Soros and his mob are big money.

we didnt get such a big slice, but ok to keep the dev going a bit. We
were very lucky that Janet from the OSI went to bat for us as it sounded
like there was a lot of skepticism internally since the OSI does not
generally fund software development these days...

anyways....more from me soon :)

adam


> 
> Open Society Institute
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Society_Institute
> 
> cheers
> L.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:46, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> > i dunno all of this. will update when i know more. we havent signed
> > anything so keep it quiet for now :)
> >
> > adam
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 14:13 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> >> Can you give us any more details?
> >>
> >> What part of Soros/OSI are we dealing with?
> >>
> >> Is this a regular grant program?
> >>
> >> What else are they doing with FLOSS?
> >>
> >> Can we announce this publicly?
> >>
> >> I would like to write this up for OLPC News.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:20, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 09:09 -0700, dwp wrote:
> >> >> Hello: Before i sent this reply i googled OSI and found 13,900,000
> >> >> references. Please for us newbies identify these abbreviations that
> >> >> frequentlly appear in the discussions. Just picking from the top hits
> >> >> OSI could be
> >> >>
> >> >> Open Source Institute and Soros Foundation etc. (they do have the
> >> >> money!:)
> >> >
> >> > yep!
> >> >
> >> >> In any case, i will take it from the E-mails that this is good news
> >> >> for support for Floss projects.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > yep!
> >> >
> >> > adam
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> Regards: david
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