Am .01.2017, 11:00 Uhr, schrieb Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de>:
Hello,
From: Peter Kovacs [mailto:legi...@gmail.com]
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/cooperative
s/european-cooperative-society_de
You are basically right, but let me give the following information.
Team OpenOffice was such a project. The participants were mainly
experienced OpenOffice developers from SUN Microsystems.
I think, the real problem there was this text
http://www.opensourceforbusiness.info/openoffice-org-droht-das-aus/
See:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120107200702/http://teamopenoffice.org/de/the-team-de.html
But Apache made a front against this project and so it was no chance.
The only short-term result was "White Label Office", see for example:
http://www.chip.de/downloads/White-Label-Office_53492033.html
I do not want to criticize one-sidedly, here is a different view:
http://www.golem.de/1112/88663.html
But Apache is the larger party and it would be the task of Apache to
recognize opportunities and bundle forces.
This is unfortunately the truth and it is a central problem for
OpenOffice.
The only restriction the ASF have is, that you can not collect money in
the name of a project as a third party. And Apache itself does not found
defelopment.
But you can collect money for Features or major bugfixes as a third party.
This model is vor sure easyer to setup, if you have some big company who
put a load of money to it. In my mind is a collaboration with Source
Forge. They rich a load of OpenOffice users.
Regards Raphael
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