Package support is also in my list. ;)

At that time we bought Envy so I would like to be able to buy a full 
monticello package.
Here everybody is using that now.
Envy was worth the money. we also bought VW when it was not free.

Now we could also imagine that other companies (even small) can pay for 
better development
tool. I think that before we try it we cannot know the answer and only 
relying on the time and energy of people is good but limited.

Stef

On 29 mars 04, at 01:17, Avi Bryant wrote:

>
> 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
>
>