Hi Andreas and list, I waited a few days before I replied to see if there was any interest from others. Judging by the amount of responses (zero so far), I fear that the Pledgebank initiative won't be a great success. How much faith do you have in it? If you are optimistic, we could run it past the users list and see how much interest there is. Would it be possible for people to have freedom in the amount that they pledge to contribute? I can imagine a company wanting to contribute $500 and an individual $100 for example.
Cheers, Roald On 07/02/12 21:26, Andreas Hocevar wrote: > Hi, > > I agree that having a donation button would be awesome, but currently > there is no legal entity behind the GeoExt project. We could apply for > OSGeo incubation, but it would take a while until we are an OSGeo > project, and until then, only the organizations that are involved in > GeoExt could accept donations - which may feel a bit awkward. So for > this effort, the easiest way to contribute would be to contact the > organization of their least distrust (terrestris, Mapgears, > Camptocamp, OpenGeo) and commit to some funding. > > But there may be another option: A successful fund raising effort was > http://www.pledgebank.com/postgistopology, which raised 3250 Euros > within a month. If we want to do this, we should set a realistic > target for small pledges (e.g. 22 people pledge 222 Euros (it's for > GeoExt 2, so 2 would be a magic number, and this would sum up to about > 6000 US$). Of course there is the risk that people who pledged don't > pay, but at least the pledges can then be processed individually by > the four organizations, e.g. divided by geographic proximity of the > person who pledged. > > How does that sound? > > Andreas. > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Roald de Wit<l...@rdewit.net> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This is great news! Maybe smaller organisations (or even individuals) >> would like to contribute something but don't know how. >> >> Would it be an idea to: >> - set up a basic page describing the details of the code sprint >> - have a way to donate (maybe something PayPal-ish?) >> - have a list of 'current status of donations' with the names of the >> donating organisations/individuals (if they wish to be named of course) >> - maybe have a wish-list for people that donate (or maybe even >> everybody) for what to include in GeoExt 2 >> ? >> >> Many small donations can add up quickly. :-) >> >> Regards, Roald >> >> On 04/02/12 04:19, Andreas Hocevar wrote: >>> Today the GeoExt PSC and representatives of terrestris and Mapgears >>> agreed on making the following announcement: >>> >>> Ext JS 4.x has been available for a while now, and GeoExt 1.x only >>> works with Ext JS 3.x. With new attractive features in Ext JS 4.x >>> (e.g. charting, harmonized API with Sencha Touch for mobile >>> applications), users demand a GeoExt version that works with Ext JS >>> 4.x. This sprint is about working on such a version. Let’s give it the >>> working title “GeoExt 2.0”. >>> >>> Four organizations involved in the development of GeoExt have >>> expressed interest in getting together for a code sprint to make >>> GeoExt work with Ext JS 4.x: Camptocamp and OpenGeo are two of the >>> founding organizations of GeoExt, with core committers that maintain >>> the project. terrestris has experience in implementing geo-related >>> features on top of Ext JS 4 and Sencha Touch. They also have developed >>> gxm, a flavor of GeoExt that works on mobile devices, an effort that >>> was reviewed by GeoExt core committers. Mapgears is a solution >>> provider delivering applications based on GeoExt. They have >>> contributed many features to GeoExt, and maintain several user >>> extensions. >>> >>> The goal of the sprint is to release a preliminary version of GeoExt >>> 2.0, which will immediately be available to the community and funding >>> organizations, but may not yet have all the features from GeoExt 1.x. >>> >>> The Ext JS 4.x API is different from the one in previous versions, so >>> a natural consequence of this is that GeoExt 2.0 can not be fully API >>> compatible with GeoExt 1.x. >>> >>> terrestris, MapGears, Camptocamp and OpenGeo have come up with an >>> estimated funding requirement of US$ 52,000, which covers the costs of >>> up to 8 developers getting together for focused work on GeoExt 2.0 for >>> 5 days. The budget includes travel costs, accommodation and food, and >>> a share of the costs of the development hours (the rest of the >>> development hours will be covered by the 4 organizations). >>> >>> Funding organizations may communicate their priorities for GeoExt 1.x >>> features they want ported to 2.0. These priorities will be considered, >>> but fulfillment cannot be guaranteed, due to dependencies on other >>> features that require more work to be ported. >>> >>> A date for the sprint can be set as soon as the commitment from >>> funding organizations sums up to the amount of US$ 52,000. We hope >>> that the sprint can happen some time between now and April 2012. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dev mailing list >> Dev@geoext.org >> http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@geoext.org http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
