In his recent posting, Ian Skerrett suggest that the Eclipse foundation do something when Eclipse 3.1 ships it’s one millionth download. He also suggests that it took roughly 62 days for Eclipse 3.0.2 to reach that mark.
How about the following: For every day less than your 60 (the old record, approximately) that it takes to hit the mark, willing Eclipse developers contributors/enthusiasts/wellwishers will do an hour of charity work. So if it takes 30 days, the willing participants donate 30 hours (each) of time to the cause of their choice.
How does that smell?
7 responses so far ↓
1 Kim Moir // Jun 2, 2005 at 9:51 pm
That’s a fantastic idea! Sign me up
2 Ian Skerrett // Jun 3, 2005 at 6:59 am
Great idea. Even though I am not an Eclipse developer, can I participate?
Maybe also have the option for people to donate $$$ to the charity of their choice.
3 pookzilla // Jun 3, 2005 at 7:11 am
I was pretty careless with my phrasing - the post has been updated to be more inclusive to non-developer.
The money option is also good - I know some of us don’t have a whole lot of free time.
Have there been any other suggestions of things we might do?
4 Ian Skerrett // Jun 3, 2005 at 7:31 pm
Nothing really serious. I’m wondering if we could setup something on the eclipse wiki and have people sign up and pledge $$ or time.
I must admit time is a challenge for me.
5 pookzilla // Jun 3, 2005 at 7:53 pm
I’ll look into setting something up on Monday if you’d like. I’d be keen on seeing this happen. It’s a great excuse to do some good stuff.
6 Chris Hubick // Jun 5, 2005 at 12:33 am
I don’t like this idea.
I think Eclipse developers should spend their time making Eclipse even better. Eclipse users should help testing and triaging bug reports or something. Let the people who can’t write/test code volunteer at the soup kitchen or whatever.
Eclipse is Free Software, and contributing to that helps make our world a better place. Eclipse will help enable Free Software development, which will lead to the availability of affordable computing platforms in the third world, which will enable education of third world people, helping their economy and millions of people.
7 Bjorn Freeman-Benson // Jun 7, 2005 at 12:10 pm
How about we turn it around and do “for every day it takes to hit the mark, willing Eclipse contributors will do an hour of charity work”? Or make it like a pledge drive - “I pledge 0.1 hours per day” or “I pledge 0.5 hours per day”? Easier to explain, at least.
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