Probably best to choose a specific feature or aspect of AOO that would be a popular benefit to a lot of people. That is the difficult bit. What is likely to be possible? Maybe further improvements to Word import/export or something? Abilty to fully edit pdf files? Whatever is chosen needs wide appeal but is not such a big job as to be impossible to achieve. I'd like a multi-user AOO to use instead of GoogleDocs but I suspect this would be too big a project.
On 7 October 2013 08:51, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote: > On 7 October 2013 01:28, Raphael Bircher <r.birc...@gmx.ch> wrote: > > > 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. > > > I think you are on a correct track in my experience AOO is very well suited > for crowdfunding, we have a very large known user base. I see it as a > chance to get things done we otherwise would not have the capacity to do. > > The key to success is however a lot of preparation, you have one shot with > your campain, so it needs to be eye catching and understandable (the user > must see the personal benefit). Choosing the right website seems less > important, trix is to use the social media. > > One of my good friends ran a very succesfull campain, raising funding to > build a small footprint controller with embedded linux, it actually paid > for 5 people a small year. > > If you need/want help with preparing the campain or afterwards, just mail > me. > > rgds > jan I. > > > > > >> 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 > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org< > dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications <https://theingots.org/community/faq#7.0> Headline points in the 2014 and 2015 school league tables www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales.
