Re: How to fund open source Clojure development

2009-12-18 Thread Joost
On 16 dec, 21:48, Joe wrote: > a. Offer new clojure features in binary form to developers who pay > $100 a year 3 months before everyone else. Would stifle development and piss off everybody who's working with clojure and doesn't want to pay. > b. Run a clojure programmer temp and/or high level

Re: How to fund open source Clojure development

2009-12-17 Thread Piyush Ranjan
> > > e. Find a business for whom Clojure is a critical piece of technology. > It is the easiest way to fund it. However AFAIK there is no big/profitable business depending on clojure solely...yet Everything else would eat into Rich's time and hence may not be such a good thing. -- You received

Re: How to fund open source Clojure development

2009-12-16 Thread Zach Tellman
All of these seem to distract from the activity we're trying to fund: the development of Clojure. If the current approach can bring in enough money, it strikes me as fairly ideal. We'll just have to wait and see if it does. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google G

How to fund open source Clojure development

2009-12-16 Thread Joe
a. Offer new clojure features in binary form to developers who pay $100 a year 3 months before everyone else. b. Run a clojure programmer temp and/or high level consulting agency. c. Charge for cert testing and training. d. Sell for access to online library api calls. e. Find a business for whom Cl