On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:59 PM, DJ Delorie <d...@delorie.com> wrote: > > If you want to hire a maintainer, consider that the average senior > engineer costs about $200k per year, if you include benefits - and if > you want a full time engineer, you'd have to provide them because > you'd be replacing their regular job. gEDA just doesn't generate that > kind of revenue.
I wasn't thinking of a full time maintainer - more along the lines of a couple of events in PCB's past: * I remember when we missed out on the second round of Google Summer of code funding for the toporouter. It was so disappointing! I remember thinking that $15K would have allowed a huge improvement to PCB by allowing the toporouter to be finished - but it wasn't to be. * You wrote the very useful visual DRC system with some financial help from Linux Fund. So no, I can't imagine our small community coming up with $200K per year - but I can just about bring myself to imagine we could raise $15K or so, and I know that even an amount like that can make a considerable difference. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user