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This seems like a really useful service!

If it was under the umbrella of a bigger non-profit it would probably be more successful to recruit companies. Right now it looks like it is done by a single person which means the project can disappear at any time. It is also not clear if the project will be sustainable in terms of infrastructure hosting.

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Richard Hughes works for Red Hat - I think they are sponsoring his time:

https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/

And another contributor (Mario Limoncell) works for DELL.

True, Red Hat have been awesome with my time. Lots of donors are sponsoring the hosting; including Amazon for the bandwidth. There's a link on the lvfs page if you'd like to throw some money in the hat, so to speak. Long term this hopefully gets transferred to the Linux Foundation, although we're still working on the legal niggles. More to share when I know more myself.

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