# May 2013 Meeting Minutes

DevFeed: [May 2013 Meeting Minutes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/may-2013-meeting-minutes-33152.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/project-news/may-2013-meeting-minutes/>)

Published: 2013-06-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

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## AI overview

Minutes from a May 2013 ReactOS meeting covering funding and contracts, including tax advice, invoices, possible freelancer support, and a proposed mini-GSoC. Participants also discussed scheduling the 0.3.16 or 0.4.0 release, but deferred the decision.

## Source excerpt

2013-05-30 19:00 UTC dev.reactos.org, #meeting ProceedingsMeeting started at 19:11 by Aleksey Bragin. Point 1: ContractsPoint 2: ReleasePoint 1Colin Finck reported that Matthias Kupfer had another meeting with tax advisers to try to resolve the issue of direct funding. Ziliang Guo prodded Aleksey Bragin again to remind him that the Russian ReactOS Foundation needed to start issuing invoices to cover existing contracts. A suggestion was made to hire freelancers to help develop the project, but there was internal resistance to this as traditionally open source projects do not fund development commercially like that unless under extraordinary circumstances.