I think my concern is more to do with if its worth doing then OSMF is probably a more efficient way to do it. Kickstarter takes a % and additionally what happens to any funds left over? It's very rare that any project spends the exact amount it was projected to cost.
Cheerio John On 14 April 2017 at 06:39, Hakuch <hak...@posteo.de> wrote: > On 12.04.2017 19:15, Steve Coast wrote: > > To me, it’s really an experiment in micro-funding. There are lots of > little projects that use OSM that are built and run by volunteers using > free or cheap resources. And that’s great. Is there also space for tiny > things to get funded enough? I don’t know, let’s see. Because if that space > does exist then you maybe can do things like hire other skills (like > interaction designers or whatever) to make the thing ten times better. > > Don't get me wrong, I like to think about and try ways how to fund > OSM/Open Source Projects. And regarding your kickstarter project it > looks like it works. Thats a good thing and I hope other projects can > benefit from that too. I just hope for them, that its not necessary to > threaten with the deletion to convince people. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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