Re: Marketplace for Django apps

2012-09-12 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
OP - you could always just set a marketplace up, try and get a few big names to jump in with you, and see if people follow - if anything it'd make for a cool little lunch time project for you! :) On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Thomas Orozco wrote: > You could always use https://www.gittip.com

Re: Marketplace for Django apps

2012-09-11 Thread Thomas Orozco
You could always use https://www.gittip.com/ to that end, Basically, it allows you to tip developers that are on github For instance, you could tip django devs at: https://www.gittip.com/on/github/django/ You can see that: https://www.gittip.com/aaugustin/ or https://www.gittip.com/alex/, among o

Re: Marketplace for Django apps

2012-09-11 Thread Kurtis Mullins
How about a compromise; just an easier way to donate to Django and Django Application developers? It would encourage sharing high quality projects and hopefully make it worth our time (financially, not just because we love and support libre software) to do so. For that matter, there's all sorts of

Re: Marketplace for Django apps

2012-09-11 Thread Jorge Vargas
I agree with Jonas here. having a place were you have get apps to solve hard problems no one has done right (ecommerce is a very good example) is a plus. As for it being "cancer" and bad I don't agree there is a market for everything. And that will bring more people in which in the end is what eve

Re: Marketplace for Django apps

2012-09-11 Thread jonas
I want to ask you again, what you think about such service? Would you buy or sell apps (or paid support) out there and why? If the apps are more then good enough and would spare companies time and there are no better or equal opensource alternatives, then yes I do believe some people might

Re: Marketplace for Django apps

2012-09-11 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
-1 It's not the cost that I'm concerned with, it's the community motivation that worries me. If we have a paid app store, we will not only end up with every tom/dick/harry submitting crappy apps (just like every other store), but it also changes the motivation of the community to be commercially

Marketplace for Django apps

2012-09-10 Thread Slava Kravchenko
Hi, our web development agency uses Django basically for all stuff we are doing. We love it, we love Django community and open-source. We even have some open-sourced apps. We also have some apps, which can't be open-sourced now for some reason, but we're interested in selling them. We know tha