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

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:33, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> 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...

I've worked with janeet before at Engagemedia.org - she's a good egg.


>
> 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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