There is still a $ sign associated since there is a value associated with the contribution. Building something like this with gamification etc. would be a whole new startup in its own right...
The problem is that incentives that are misplaced can backfire in a way that's irreparable. With our limited resources we need to be very careful about where we invest our effort. Without a dedicated person for community building I don't think we can invest resources in that at this time. RoboVM is a lot more like us than OpenFL & libGDX... - It had commercial aspects - Offered IDE integration to support cross platform development to iOS - They literally copied the text from our website for their marketing - It was promoted for app development not game development libGDX & OpenFL: - Have no commercial aspect - Target the gaming industry I've spent a lot of time trying to understand if these are the reasons they have more community involvement or if it's something else. Notice that neither one of those offers any such incentive... Gaming is a very different type of community to app development. There is more of a "do it yourself" attitude and so contribution comes more naturally. The fact that we have a commercial aspect to Codename One is a huge blocker to many people. One suggestion was to separate the code aspect of Codename One from the commercial entity but again that requires resources/effort & duplication. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CodenameOne Discussions" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/codenameone-discussions. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/codenameone-discussions/1e3680f9-d81e-4f51-a33e-9600720f8330%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
