On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> wrote: > That said I really don't care much because the Wine project would not > know what to do with the money anyway. It's not that sponsoring > developers to go to the Wine conference is not good but it does not > scale. > > So if we raised 10000$ in a year, how would we use them to move Wine > forward? > > Hire contractors to work on specific issues? What contractors? Get a > part-time Wine developper to work full-time on Wine for a while? What > would he do after the money runs out? > > Hardware purchases? What kind and for what? Maybe for the patchwatcher? > Maybe hire someone to administrate the patchwatcher machines part-time? > > Marketing? Where? How? Would it really be beneficial? Wouldn't 10000$ be > too little? > > Well, maybe someone will have a bright idea?
Getting the money is usually the hard part. Once there is money, usually ideas start flowing much easier ;-). That said, the favorite idea I've heard was sponsoring our own summer (winter/whenever) of code's. Patchwatcher also seems like a good idea, if someone is available/interested. Extending Appinstall more may also be good <g>... -- -Austin
