How to bring money in the community

Avi Bryant avi at beta4.com
Sun Mar 28 23:17:40 UTC 2004


On Mar 28, 2004, at 11:21 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:

> Hi Tim
>
> Why don't you try to propose some topics you would like to work on and 
> build a kind of small
> business model. For my side I would pay for:
>
> 	- a better UI framework
> 	- a better file system
> 	- a better compiler framework
> 	- a better VM

Someone started a page on the wiki for this - see 
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2653 .  I don't think anything ever 
came of it (that is, I've never heard of money actually changing hands 
because of it).

What you're suggesting is certainly an interesting experiment.  It 
could go the other way too: people could post detailed lists of things 
that they would be willing and qualified to work on, but don't have 
time to do immediately; others could send them money to move some of 
those items to the top of the priority list.  Certainly with packages 
like Monticello I feel that I could be occupied full time improving it 
if there were enough interest and funding, but so far I have no way of 
knowing what the interest level is for what, and no real mechanism to 
get funding for any of it directly.

I don't get the impression that there's a whole lot of money floating 
about in the community for that kind of thing, but I'd love to be 
proven wrong.

Avi



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