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List:       bouncycastle-crypto-dev
Subject:    [dev-crypto] Re: [announce-crypto] The future of Bouncy Castle - FIPS or bust!
From:       Megan Woods <megan.woods () woods-gebler ! com>
Date:       2013-11-29 2:39:25
Message-ID: 5297FE5D.3030003 () woods-gebler ! com
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That is fantastic..

And I will wear my T-Shirt with pride.

Cheers Megan


On 29/11/2013 1:31 pm, David Hook wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On the eve of our 50th Java release I thought it would be appropriate 
> to fill everyone in on a few changes to the way we at Bouncy Castle work.
>
> As a few of you are aware, the core developers and some friends of the 
> project set up a not-for-profit association a couple of months ago to 
> allow us to capture management of the libraries into a single legal 
> entity. I'm pleased to announce that the entity that was set up, 
> Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc., has now been recognised and 
> registered by the Australian Government as a charity established for 
> the public benefit, and for the benefit of education.
>
> From our users perspective, the biggest change is that we have 
> established certainty that the libraries will always be freely 
> available. The biggest change from the project's point of view is that 
> we are now able to accept donations in order to help progress 
> development. As a few of you are also aware last year some of us 
> started a company, Crypto Workshop Pty Ltd, for the purpose of 
> providing consulting services and commercial support contracts. This 
> has been going okay, and I'm pleased to also say that the upcoming 
> release sees the benefit of an additional 20 hours of time spent on 
> the release that was actually paid for by our earliest support 
> contracts. However, it has become clear that our consulting arm is not 
> something that will allow us to undertake major exercises such as FIPS 
> certification, without putting at risk the principles we wish this 
> project to continue to be built on, such as maintaining it as freely 
> available. This is why attaining recognition as a charity and the 
> ability to accept donations, with the appropriate oversight implied, 
> is really important to us, and to you, our user community.
>
> Which brings me to my next announcement. We're marking these changes 
> by having our first fundraiser, and our first target is to meet the 
> costs of getting the libraries appropriately certified. We believe we 
> can raise this money, but we do know we cannot do it without your 
> help, so if you, like us, value the independence of this project, and 
> wish to see it continue to provide you with quality open source 
> cryptography, please follow the link below to find out how to donate.
>
> https://www.bouncycastle.org/donate/index.cgi
>
> As it is our first fundraiser, we have also been able to get our 
> resident cartoonist to provide us with t-shirt artwork allowing us to 
> provide donors with a PDF template which will enable you to create an 
> official fundraiser t-shirt of your own. Wear it with pride!
>
> If anyone has any questions, please feel free to contact me. On behalf 
> of the Legion, I would be grateful if you pass this message on to 
> anyone you know would be interested.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>


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