We keep bringing up the same social problem: We have brilliant people contributing quality code, with a lack of documentation, polish, and to some degree community management/engagement.
The solution is simple: help out by writing or improving documentation, building demo apps, writing tutorials, and sharing success stories. All of the creators and maintainers of these projects LOVE being engaged by those interested in the project. They will take the time to help you adopt their stuff and patch up libraries to solve your specific problems (time-allowing). I think a general fund/fundraiser is a bad idea, but I'm all for a Clojure Ecosystem bounty page/site. If companies or individuals want to put monetary support behind a feature/bug-fix/tutorial, I think we should let them. This approach has worked well for Mozilla, Apache, and others. We would just have to be mindful that the bounties are for the ecosystem and not for Clojure-proper development. Don't be scared to reach out and approach the authors of the libraries you're using. I've had much success directly contracting creators/maintainers of open source projects. Regards, Paul On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 10:19:04 AM UTC-7, Jim foo.bar wrote: > > aaa ok that makes things clearer...thank you I get your point now! i > can't say it doesn't make sense but i would say it's rather ambitious. :-) > > > Jim > > > On 05/09/12 18:15, Simone Mosciatti wrote: > > I would say raise money to help people improve their project > (documentation is a very important part that). > > With a little of our effort and a big jump thank to some company we > would improve a lot of projects. > > It will help everybody... > > The developers that finally get something from their open source project > The community and the company that can now use better library ... > > I don't know, it is just an idea, if nobody see any point, too bad... > > On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:58:30 PM UTC+2, Jim foo.bar wrote: >> >> I'll be honest with you... I 'm not sure I understand at all what you >> mean! raise money for people to document their open-source projects >> better? >> >> forgive me but I missed your point... :-) >> >> Jim >> >> >> On 05/09/12 17:37, Simone Mosciatti wrote: >> > Hi everybody, >> > >> > I get a little idea now that we are heading to Christmas. >> > >> > Would be nice to organize a little fund raiser to support our projects. >> > >> > We have a lot of great project, but first of all good documentation is >> > not the norm. >> > Then there are a lot of spot where we can improve-- I am thinking >> > about web authentication, friends is great but the same author suggest >> > to add security and a bunch of other type of authentication, but >> > obviously there is more. >> > >> > I am making a personal project and I am find some sort of lack in any >> > library I am using, however I don't have neither the time nor the >> > knowledge to really improve the situation. >> > >> > Maybe the author of the library would have at least the knowledge so >> > if we can raise some money to buy his/her time would be really nice, >> > wouldn't ? >> > >> > Finally we should also involve the company that are using clojure ( >> > http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Clojure+Success+Stories more >> > http://www.quora.com/Whos-using-Clojure-in-production ) to raise >> > bigger money. >> > >> > I thought about and I have some idea how decide what project would get >> > the -hypotetical- money. >> > >> > Anyway before to even think about how organize everything I want to >> > know what the community think about that. >> > >> > It is possible ? It can be dangerous ? We shouldn't do that ? >> > >> > Thanks for the attention. >> > >> > Greets >> > >> > Simone Mosciatti >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "Clojure" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com >> > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient >> > with your first post. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > clojure+u...@googlegroups.com >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
