Hi all
Am 05.10.13 13:30, schrieb Andrea Pescetti:
Jörg Schmidt wrote:
Apache could for example give hints/weblinks how to encrypt emails
(that would
help people in dictatorships), but that is not the real object of Apache
That would not be relevant to the project. But if someone has a budget
to spend in improving Apache OpenOffice, this would be relevant to the
project: it would be useful to him to learn that he cannot pay a
developer through Apache, but that (with no involvement and no
responsibilities for Apache) he can post his request on a third-party
website.
Yes, it's not a topic for the ASF, but for the OpenOffice Community. The
special thing about OpenOffice is the large userbase. If only one of 500
users invest 10 dollars, there would be a investment about 1 million
dollars. Luckely this doesn't happend. I simply want to show how big the
potential is. To get me right, I talk about investments, and not about
donnations.
I plane to start small, with small projects of same 1000 dollars. You
can see the results faster and good results generate new funds. It is
not a easy part, and I understand everyone who stay away from this
business. But it is also a big chance for OpenOffice and of course for
developers.
Then, like all patches, this contribution may or may not be included
in OpenOffice depending on licensing and technical merit. But at least
we give some more visibility to the OpenOffice "ecosystem", quite
similarly to what we do with consultants.
That said, I have very little experience with crowdfunding sites and I
don't know what the best one would be to find OpenOffice developers.
I will talk next week to a person who has probabily experiance with
this. I know this person from may sporttime. He has a company that helps
in startups. Sametimes it's good to have a load of connections ;-)
Greetings Raphael
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