Jörg Schmidt wrote:
Apache could for example give hints/weblinks how to encrypt emails (that would help people in dictatorships), but that is not the real object of Apache
That would not be relevant to the project. But if someone has a budget to spend in improving Apache OpenOffice, this would be relevant to the project: it would be useful to him to learn that he cannot pay a developer through Apache, but that (with no involvement and no responsibilities for Apache) he can post his request on a third-party website.
Then, like all patches, this contribution may or may not be included in OpenOffice depending on licensing and technical merit. But at least we give some more visibility to the OpenOffice "ecosystem", quite similarly to what we do with consultants.
That said, I have very little experience with crowdfunding sites and I don't know what the best one would be to find OpenOffice developers.
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