If there really is lots of concerned OSFlash community members it would only take a a handfull of people to make things work financially for some of these projects. I am coming from experience that some projects die because people can no longer afford to keep coding.
$25 x $100=$2500 Simple equation but 100 people giving 25 dollars a month would be enough to make a big difference to most projects. Look at the GoS. Google Summer of Code. Great success with a small monetary funding scheme. I like it. Anyhow that is the scoop. On Friday 20 October 2006 1:54 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The first thing I think is to help out OSFlash. I see nothing wrong with > Aral getting a little help. Even if things are up and running there has > been lots of work to get it this far. I am going to start there. I don't > have all the answers but it would be nice to see some people throw into the > pot. > > Possibly there is a monthly project selected to recieve the donations from > the community. Or if things get big in monetary terms possibly there could > be multiple projects. I think it is only fair that Open Source takes care > of it's own. That way if big business does come in to take over they would > have to pay people off a whole lot more than they would if people were > starving :) > > Think of it as a Community insurance policy. > > So any suggestions as to how to get this started. I would think that a pay > pal account be set up and monthly donations go in there. Then it gets > distributed. The criteria might be that the project is active or like asdt > we want to see it again active. This might attract developers to the > projects. > > I say that this funding applies to OSFlash registered projects. It would be > easiest to keep track of then. The funds could be displayed on the OSFlash > website. > > Thanks > > On Friday 20 October 2006 1:13 am, David Rorex wrote: > > How do you decide who to donate to? Only the OSFlash maintainers? Some > > projects you find interesting? Or will you try to split evenly between as > > many people as possible? The OSFlash community has become quite large > > nowadays. > > > > Either way, I commend you on your generosity. > > > > -David R > > > > On 10/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In order to see the OSFlash community thrive and grow it is necessary > > > to provide financial support for the primary source of Open Source > > > Flash development. > > > > > > I am purposing that everyone give a one time donation of $50 Canadian > > > (why Canadian? well because I live there) or the equivalent. Then try > > > to make monthly donations of around $25 dollars. > > > > > > It may seem like a little but with lots of people doing so it would > > > provide > > > the necessary money to keep OSFlash going solid. > > > > > > I am transferring money to my Pay Pal account and will make my first > > > transfer > > > as soon as possible. > > > > > > Chris Cherrett > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > osflash mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
