Hey Roald, it seems there are other, similar solutions as well, e.g. Kickstarter. Maybe there you can choose an amount, but I haven't done further investigation. I'm a bit short on time now, so I'll revisit this approach as soon as I get to it. If anybody else feels like pushing this forward, just let us know - it'd be much appreciated.
Andreas. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Roald de Wit <l...@rdewit.net> wrote: > 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 -- Andreas Hocevar OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@geoext.org http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
