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On 19/06/2011 10:38, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Il giorno sab, 18/06/2011 alle 20.53 +0800, Ramon Andinach ha scritto:
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<pre wrap="">Hello all (developers and non-developers both),
Consider this a reaction to "have you considered sponsoring development". From a non-developer. Who is still trying to understand how the sponsoring development idea works.
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Hi Ramon.
I appreciate your thoughts; the proposed route seems to me rather
complex to implement, but if you think you can manage it, I do not see
anybody stopping you.
Let's work out a modus operandi.
All the best.
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It might be interesting to follow a similar "fund drive" [1]
organized by a developer, Warren Togami to save the K12Linux
(Terminal Server) project. There have been packages for ltsp on for
Enterprise Linux 5, used in many schools for years now. However
changes in the EL6 distro caused many of the required features not
to work. Warren had worked on K12Linux previously as a Red Hat
employee, and volunteer. He came out recently with a proposal to
work on fixing some of the key issues, but he required pledges of
contributions from users before beginning work. <br>
He began modestly with a goal of $750. Users - thru the maillist -
soon pitched in with sums of around $50. Then RedHat came forward
and promised an additional $500 matching $500 from new contributors.
That goal was also quickly reached and at this point Warren now has
promises (and real money transfers) of a few $1000. He has now set a
list of specific goals he hopes to achieve and the funding needed.
And He's thrown up a youtube video of what works so far.<br>
<br>
So what can we learn form this (apparently) successful pledge drive?<br>
1- The initiative came from a programmer, not users.<br>
2- He was well aware of the problem at hand and what users needed<br>
3- He laid out very specific goals,fees, and a schedule from the get
go.<br>
4- Corporate funding jumped on the bandwagon after "regular" users
showed a genuine interest by paying small sums.<br>
<br>
Maybe this can be of help in planning sponsorship for ongoing
development of QGIS?<br>
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[1] <a href="https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/2011FundDrive">https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/2011FundDrive</a><br>
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