Dollars in the hundreds are hardly a deterrent to business, nor enough to make developers here jump through hoops that involve huge amounts of work.
________________________________ From: pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr] on behalf of Guido Stepken [gstep...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 6:20 AM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Spoon presentation 2012-02-24 > You're not in supermarket. You are on pharo-development list. Exactly. Perhaps a auction might help, where Pharo users meet programmers. A "feature wanted" as offer, Smalltalk programmers may secretly offer "their implementation" for €$ (2nd lowest offer wins, see 'swiss auction') and as soon the money is collected (open sponsor bid), the programmer is contracted to implement. Pharo group just helps implementing a bit, being as well payed, different models may apply. I have no problem to pay for features that i want to have implemented, but i simply refuse to sponsor Pharo development, not knowing what for and when it will be ready. With open bids for development (anonymous bids for implementation) it will be fun for companies to continuously raise their offer to see a feature implemented soon. The more important it is for their business, the more and the quicker they spend. AND - its cheap, cause cost divide up among investors. There are lots of companies waiting, who - rather sooner as later - would leave commercial platforms costing them several hundred bucks a year per client. But as long as the Pharo group does not offer them a instrument to steer and control Pharo development, nothing will happen. Develop the development process! regards, Guido Stepken
