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If you had been following the story of these projects you would know that it is paperless (and not open paperles or mayan) that has been leaching off other projects and people.


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- Feb 27, 2016, "I wish I could be paid to work on my side projects like @TheTweetPile and Paperless". (https://twitter.com/danielagquinn/status/703629488932970500)

- Mar 13, 2016, "Added Gratipay" (https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless/commit/500cee1d9d06...)

- Mar 13, 2016, "Gratipay sucks because it depends on PayPal. Long live bitcoin" (https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless/commit/705a5b8a8468...)

- Apr 9, 2016, "Added reference to Mayan EDMS" (https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless/commit/674d54ec3878...)

- Finally on Dec 26, 2016, "Give to the UNHCR" (https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless/commit/9ea39aeecb4f...)


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.


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...?




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