We see in Star citizen how mighty crowd can be. Maybe a platform would be great where people can pledge money for something they need. If the needed budget is reached, payed developers implement it. Or we could do it as a bonus system. You pledge money on a bug/enhancement, if the bug gets included in the release the developers get a payout.
This is just an idea. I am not sure if we can do business within the ASF or if we have to found a 3rd party entity for this. If we have to go 3rd party I prefer a cooperative society as a legal form. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/social-economy/cooperatives/european-cooperative-society_de All the best Peter Raphael Bircher <rbircherapa...@gmail.com> schrieb am Sa., 14. Jan. 2017, 06:32: > Hi at all > > If we compare AOO to day with the good old OpenOffice.org Project in 2006, > we have now a tiny community. Well, we will be able to maintain the > project, make some bugfix and maybe some features too. But we will never > track down the work who is in our issue tracker. > > But surprisingly we have still a very height download number. If you read > comments on social media you see, that many are really happy with the > programm. The problem is, tat this user simply are looked out from the > product development. The Enduser can only watch and pray. > > While most bigger Apache Projects has a well working business model > behind, OpenOffice has nothing. In fact we never cared about it. I believe > it's rely time to change this. There are maybe at the moment no big > investors, but maybe more individuals who love the idea. > > I know, we have to stick within the Apache rules, but this should be > possible. So let's collect ideas here. > > Regards, Raphael > > -- > Mein Blog: https://raphaelbircher.blogspot.ch > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Disclaimer: Diese Nachricht stammt aus einem Google Account. Ihre Antwort wird in der Google Cloud Gespeichert und durch Google Algorythmen zwecks werbeanaöysen gescannt. Es ist derzeit nicht auszuschließen das ihre Nachricht auch durch einen NSA Mitarbeiter geprüft wird. Durch kommunikation mit diesen Account stimmen Sie zu das ihre Mail, ihre Kontaktdaten und die Termine die Sie mit mir vereinbaren online zu Google konditionen in der Googlecloud gespeichert wird. Sollten sie dies nicht wünschen kontaktieren sie mich bitte Umgehend um z.B. alternativen zu verhandeln.
