Allen Riddell

Now that I think about it, I think $10-20k might fund 5 or more of these sabbatical loans. The developers themselves would pay back the sabbatical loan over some period...

The reason for doing loans vs. grants is that you could fund many more sabbaticals (maybe 5-10x as many?) for the same amount of money. I would want to make...

I think the zero or negative interest loan might appeal to a lot of developers who want to take time off to work intensively on an open source project. The...

I could see something like this: the endowment is set aside to pay for N/hours a week of programming time for tasks deemed critical by a majority of the DSF...

I suppose $500K/yr might be right. It seems high. Although "[T]he SEP has a paid staff of only three—Zalta, Nodelman, and Allen—plus five other Stanford employees who spend 20% of...

I think this is a great idea. I'd be willing to give money to a centrally managed fund where money was given to projects that needed it. I worry a...

From the website it looks like the Board (7 people) selects who gets money. And the Board is elected by 97 developers (who each pay >=$40 a month). This seems...

Interesting. Well, it certainly would be a more compelling example (to me, at least) if it could fund outside contributors to work on other Ruby projects (like Bundler). I'm still...

There are many (certainly more than a dozen) programmers who work nearly full-time on open-source projects when that project is related to scientific research. I might look at some of...

I'd be willing to get details on the NumFocus case if there aren't people here with direct knowledge.