On Tue, 2021-07-13 at 08:37 +0200, Greg KH wrote:

Ah, hopefully people actually realize this :)

GitHub makes it fairly obvious even in text based browsers, for eg:

https://github.com/codilime/veles

I find it suprising that if these projects are really being used, and
there are problems, that none of the companies using them are
contributing back to the projects for these issues.

It appears Samsung is using them in Tizen and Collabora has some
interest in them, presumably for some of their customers and the commit
logs and bug reports show a few other companies. I expect that the
projects are mostly considered "good enough" infrastructure that they
don't have enough motivation to assign much work time to them.

The technical things should be easy for those companies to help with,
the "advocacy" is a different thing, and that you should be able to do
today by submitting talks to conferences to get the word out.  Almost
all conferences have travel stipends for speakers that are not sponsored
by companies to travel.

Of course, all of the work needed can be done by anyone volunteering in
their spare time or work time when no higher priority work needs doing,
but allocating funding towards these projects would make it easier for
this work to be prioritised.

good luck!

Seems like luck will be needed indeed.

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