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by karinato 3103 days ago
In contrast, donations by Roberto Rosario:

- Gold sponsor of Django schema migration work (http://www.aeracode.org/2013/04/11/whole-load-kickstarting/)

- Gold sponsor of the Django multi template engine work (https://myks.org/en/multiple-template-engines-for-django/fun...)

- Gold sponsor for the Django REST framework work (http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/kickstarter-anno...)

- Gives money and time to groups looking to increase participation of women to STEM fields like #IncludeGirls (https://medium.com/ladies-storm-hackathons/include-girls-137...) (https://aldia.microjuris.com/2013/10/07/ciclo-de-conferencia...) (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/python-django-workshop-tickets-...).

- Has started initiatives like PythonLatino and DjangoLatino to increase Latinamerican participation in Django and Python.

- Was chairman of the group that got the PyCon started in Cuba after travel restrictions were relaxed.

- Author or many Python and Django popular projects that help a lot of people like Awesome Django (https://github.com/rosarior/awesome-django).

- Sponsored STEM books.

- PSF candidate with endorsements by Python leaders like Anna Ravencroft, co-author of the Python Cookbook along with her husband Alex Martelli, fellow of the Python Software Foundation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Martelli) (https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundation/BoardC...).

Many more but links are dead and don't want the spend the rest of the day on the internet archive.

1 comments

There is no name conflict with mayan edms though...?

i mean, yeah, Roberto Rosario is a great guy and mayan edms is objectively better than Paperless, i've no idea how that has any kind of relevance to the name conflict...?