I think we should start something on fundable.org. This is exactly the types of things it was built for.
On Jul 24, 2005, at 10:13 AM, Tobias Luetke wrote: > Hey Robby, > > Thanks for bringing this to the ML. > > Lets do it. Themes are the missing part in the puzzle. slaird is > working hard today on the theming engine. Once its up we should use > this to get us a slashdotting. > > We recently registered domains for typo as well. > > www.typosphere.com/org and www.typocosmy.com/org can now be used for a > proper home page. > > > On 7/24/05, Robby Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just starting a thread... :-) >> >> Some people in #typo earlier were discussing some ideas of how to >> get a >> bunch of themes added to Typo. One idea was to hold a contest where >> people would submit their themes and the winner would win a prize. >> One >> prize idea was an iPod. This would cost less than $400, so the Typo >> group would need to get some money together to pay for this. >> >> If 40 people offer $10, then we could do this. If 20 people offered >> $20... you get the idea. >> >> So, what if we put together a website for Typo, setup some neat ajax >> stuff that people could put on their site that would show how much >> money >> has been raised so far, etc... and then work on setting up rules >> for a >> theme submission contest. >> >> It's nothing new in the open source community and it seems to have >> been >> a good way to accomplish this sort of thing before. I think it'd be a >> good idea. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> ..it's late, bed time. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -Robby >> >> -- >> /****************************************************** >> * Robby Russell, Owner.Developer.Geek >> * PLANET ARGON, Open Source Solutions & Web Hosting >> * Portland, Oregon | p: 503.351.4730 | f: 815.642.4068 >> * www.planetargon.com | www.robbyonrails.com >> *******************************************************/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Typo-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list >> >> > > > -- > Tobi > http://www.snowdevil.ca - Snowboards that don't suck > http://typo.leetsoft.com - Open source weblog engine > http://blog.leetsoft.com - Technical weblog > > _______________________________________________ > Typo-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list > > >
