The first attempt at a competition was a Kickstarter campaign. No money was collected, because Kickstarter is an all-or-nothing affair. (In other words, you didn't actually lose any money.)
Cincom had pledged $5,000, but because it was all-or-nothing, they wriggled out of it. Otherwise, we could've run a downscaled competition. I've learned from that mistake and chosen to use GoFundMe. If necessary, I shall run a downscaled competition, assuming that I get reasonable funding. The last thing I want to do is run a chintzy peanuts contest; it would do absolutely nothing for Smalltalk. Tim Mackinnon wrote > I noticed that your gofundme update email went into my spam mail box - so > I wasn’t aware it had gone live. > > Are you able to apply the funds from your previous campaign (The Ultimate > Smalltalk Tutorial) to this one? As a contributor to that last one - which > unfortunately didn’t manage to deliver like you hoped, I am a little > hesitant… I think this is often the way, we need to feel like its > something that has gathered enough moment to succeed otherwise what > happens to the money collected? > > Don’t get me wrong, I am a fan of your tutorials (it reignited my > interested a few years back) - so don’t count me out yet. > > Tim > >> On 21 Jun 2018, at 11:23, horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: >> >> I'm disappointed in the response. Only two contributors of $100 each. >> This is >> extremely tepid. >> >> There must be thousands of Smalltalkers around the world. How to reach >> out >> to them? It can't be that hard to fund this contest. I mean, there are >> many >> stupid causes on GoFundMe that have raised tens of thousands of dollars! >> This Smalltalk programming competition is anything but stupid. >> >> If only 1500 Smalltalkers each contributed a paltry $20, the contest >> would >> be fully funded. It would only take 300 contributors of $100 each. >> >> The question is: How much do we care about the future of Smalltalk? >> >> >> >> -- >> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html >> -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
