al davis wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007 21:46, Ales Hvezda wrote: >> 3) Hire a developer. I'm sure there are several developers >> here who are willing to fix your favorite pet peeve. But >> this, of course, won't be cheap, as everybody's free time is >> extremely valuable. > > Financing the development of a project is a good way to push it > in the direction you want it to go. If there is money attached > to a particular issue, I put the others aside and do that one > immediately. When there is no money involved, I do what is > important to me and to those who I consider to be the most > important users.
We need to find a way to smooth this process. I suspect that there are a lot of users willing to pay a few hundred dollars to get a particular feature fixed/implemented, but the overhead of negotiating a typical consulting contract would overrun the benefit. When tasks pass the $1000 range, typical one-on-one contracting arrangements make sense, but I would like to see a smooth way for smaller tasks to get funding. Or even for several people to contribute money over time for a task. Maybe we need to hire someone to implement the appropriate e-commerce site;-) -- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep, http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep." _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
