On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 08:07:15AM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > >From the free software side - the number of people on any given > project is limited to like 5. Most projects either have no more major > contributors or naturally decompose into multiple parts where the > number of people involved in any given part is very low. eg. the Linux > kernel has subsystems, ... > Very few people are major contributors to more than 1-2 projects at a time.
In addition to this, open source projects tend, in my experience and observations, to prefer either simple tools that don't depend on much (thus reducing the bar to entry for use by a wide range of people) or approaches, formats, and protocols that are well served by a wide range of tools so that there is a standardized process but not a standardized toolset. That doesn't even address the fact that these projects also don't tend to bother using tools with subscription fees. > > And I guess you are not reaching people. How would you reach people > through kickstart is a mystery to me, tbh. It's not like people > regularly look there thinking along the lines of "what am I going to > sponsor today?" Big, successful kickstarter campaigns tend to be the campaigns created by people, projects, or organizations that already have a strong fan or follower base. Build the social capital first, then spend it on a kickstarter campaign. > > All in all if you are project manager you can try to develop a project > management software as a hobby but expecting $65k funding from random > people does not look realistic. In general, I'd expect that project management software is not the kind of thing that gets built on community enthusiasm, for many of the reasons you brought up (mostly elided here), but also because it's the kind of thing that gets used by corporate business organizations -- and most of them already have something they're using across the entire organization by mandate from rather high up the hierarchy. To break into that, you need organizations that need a new solution *now* to pick what you're providing, which means it has to already be finished before they consider it. In short, you have to hope that what you want to create will be a "build it and they will come" situation. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
