| Re: [ee4j-community] Red Hat committment to EE4J |
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On 2017-10-17 6:02 AM, Ben Evans wrote:
For example - money. Running an open-source project the size of EE4J isn't free. The Eclipse folks are going to need some admin staff, perhaps some paralegal time, possibly travel budget, etc. I think vendors, as profit-making entities, should be sending a clear signal by stepping up and giving a commitment to covering those costs. Mike - can you give us an indication of what you think EE4J will need as a budget, and whether it's currently covered? Ben, Our back-of-the-envelope estimate is that this is going to take
at least 8 people, plus a significant amount of marketing dollars
to be a success. The arithmetic says $2.5M +/- .5M for at least
the next three years. There have been no commitments to any incremental funding at this
point, so no, none of this is covered at the moment. But these are
early days. We have started the discussion process, and we will
see where it leads us. In the meantime the focus is on-boarding
the projects and getting them operational. |