These are good ideas Steve, I must confess that I've been a little distracted lately - and we do definitely need to get our act together on funding. Matthew, what is our current "drop-dead" date as best as you can estimate it?
Ian. On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Steve Dougherty <steve at asksteved.com>wrote: > The project's current state is reflected in a dollar amount of remaining > project funds, along with an estimate of how much additional development > time > it corresponds to. This amount will decrease suddenly and significantly > when a > payment is made. It's not - at least supposed to be - a secret that the > Freenet > project is set to run out of funds mid-September. I've mentioned to people > - on > Sone, in #freenet - that the project is running out of funds and they had > no > idea. This is a problem. I propose (in decreasing importance) that: > > 1) The donation page mention _when_ the last ~2-month payment was made. > - Or ideally, that the time remaining estimate include remaining > funded development time. This need not be exact: it would allow the > estimate to decrease gradually instead of in sudden chunks. > > 2) Fundraising be presented as drives for a month's worth of funding. > - This would allow donating to have goals, and be framed as increasing > toward something tangible, (a month of development) rather than building > up > funds against sudden, quiet decrease. > - The estimate ceases to be meaningful if it sits at "8 days" for two > months. > > 3) Release announcements include statements on the project's current > financial > state and how to donate. > - Fred could have integrated release announcements for greater > visibility. > These could of course be disabled by the user. > > 4) Release announcements also be displayed on the freenetproject.orghomepage > in something akin to the "Latest Releases"/"News" sidebar on winehq.org. > - Having only news posts that are several months old makes the project > appear inactive, which it is not. > > It should go without saying that a 0.8 release would probably make good > press, > assuming it can be made stable before funding runs out. > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Ian Clarke Personal blog: http://blog.locut.us/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110829/79bd2904/attachment.html>
