I would say raise money to help people improve their project (documentation is a very important part that).
With a little of our effort and a big jump thank to some company we would improve a lot of projects. It will help everybody... The developers that finally get something from their open source project The community and the company that can now use better library ... I don't know, it is just an idea, if nobody see any point, too bad... On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:58:30 PM UTC+2, Jim foo.bar wrote: > > I'll be honest with you... I 'm not sure I understand at all what you > mean! raise money for people to document their open-source projects > better? > > forgive me but I missed your point... :-) > > Jim > > > On 05/09/12 17:37, Simone Mosciatti wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I get a little idea now that we are heading to Christmas. > > > > Would be nice to organize a little fund raiser to support our projects. > > > > We have a lot of great project, but first of all good documentation is > > not the norm. > > Then there are a lot of spot where we can improve-- I am thinking > > about web authentication, friends is great but the same author suggest > > to add security and a bunch of other type of authentication, but > > obviously there is more. > > > > I am making a personal project and I am find some sort of lack in any > > library I am using, however I don't have neither the time nor the > > knowledge to really improve the situation. > > > > Maybe the author of the library would have at least the knowledge so > > if we can raise some money to buy his/her time would be really nice, > > wouldn't ? > > > > Finally we should also involve the company that are using clojure ( > > http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Clojure+Success+Stories more > > http://www.quora.com/Whos-using-Clojure-in-production ) to raise > > bigger money. > > > > I thought about and I have some idea how decide what project would get > > the -hypotetical- money. > > > > Anyway before to even think about how organize everything I want to > > know what the community think about that. > > > > It is possible ? It can be dangerous ? We shouldn't do that ? > > > > Thanks for the attention. > > > > Greets > > > > Simone Mosciatti > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Clojure" group. > > To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient > > with your first post. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
