Re: PHP Development Fund & Development Needs

> David Medinets wrote: > > A few days ago, someone mentioned a development fund. Is there an > > "official" fund set up? If so, what are the rules for donating and > > disbersement? > > It's all been very ad-hoc so far. Rasmus handles the money, and gives > it out when someone comes up with a reasonable expense (examples being > some books for Andi and Zeev, Visual C++ 6 for Shane, and probably > some other things). > > We are looking at turning this over to someone like the Apache Software > Foundation, however, because this opens up Rasmus (and probably others) > to some tax liabilities. I am still trying to clarify how exactly this will work within ASF, or if it will work at all. The ASF policies for this have not been determined yet and I am waiting for them to come to some sort of concensus. > Oh, and the official page with information about funding is at > http://www.php.net/funding.php3, but I think the address may be > out > of date. It still works. But I would probably suggest waiting a bit, or maybe contributing some stuff to the Zend guys instead for now since they probably need it more right now. -Rasmus