{"id":333,"date":"2010-02-07T15:58:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocoproject.org\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2010-02-07T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T15:02:07","slug":"sponsors-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pocoproject.org\/blog\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Sponsors Needed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As stated in a <a href=\"http:\/\/pocoproject.org\/blog\/?p=257\">blog post<\/a> some months ago, I am now looking for sponsors to help funding POCO C++ Libraries development. After considering a few alternatives, including setting up a non-profit organization overseeing project direction and funding, I came to the conclusion that, at least at the beginning, sponsorship agreements will be handled by my company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appinf.com\">Applied Informatics<\/a>, via a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appinf.com\/legal\/SponsorshipAgreement.pdf\">contract<\/a> (PDF). Everything else would just require additional resources (both in work and monetary), which cannot be justified at the moment. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appinf.com\/legal\/SponsorshipAgreement.pdf\">Sponsorship Agreement<\/a> will ensure that all funds received from sponsors will be spent on POCO C++ Libraries development (and related things, such as the project website). Based on feedback from a potential sponsor, the Sponsorship Agreement also includes professional support, provided to a sponsor&#8217;s software developers by Applied Informatics. More information can be found at the new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pocoproject.org\/info\/sponsorship.html\">Sponsorship\/Funding<\/a> page. Feedback, especially on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.appinf.com\/legal\/SponsorshipAgreement.pdf\">Sponsorship Agreement<\/a>, is welcome!<\/p>\n<p>The lack of funding is really hurting the project in the long run. While Alex and I do our best do keep the project humming along by at least providing bug fixes and a some new features on a more or less regular basis, larger work items like finishing the 1.4 release and preparing the path for a future 2.0 release are basically on hold (for reasons stated <a href=\"http:\/\/pocoproject.org\/blog\/?p=257\">here<\/a>). Only a few sponsors would be needed to improve the situation. Just having one developer funded for half a year (which amounts to about EUR 30.000) would make a big difference to the project.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re using POCO in a commercial product earning you piles of money, consider <a href=\"http:\/\/pocoproject.org\/info\/sponsorship.html\">giving something back<\/a> to the people that have worked countless hours for free to give you great C++ libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<\/p>\n<p>G\u00fcnter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As stated in a blog post some months ago, I am now looking for sponsors to help funding POCO C++ Libraries development. After considering a few alternatives, including setting up a non-profit organization overseeing project direction and funding, I came to the conclusion that, at least at the beginning, sponsorship agreements will be handled by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,23],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donations","tag-sponsorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocoproject.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocoproject.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocoproject.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocoproject.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocoproject.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pocoproject.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/pocoproject.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocoproject.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocoproject.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocoproject.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}