On 13 May 2011 21:50, e-letter <inp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >On 12 May 2011 17:55, Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> wrote: > > > >> Le 2011-05-11 17:01, Samuel M a écrit : > >> > >> I believe, that The Document Foundation can employ Developers for > >>> LibreOffice. I believe the community is able to get the money for that > on a > >>> monthly base. > >>> > >>> We saw that the community was able to rise 50.000€ in 8(!) days. It > will > >>> be possible to get that money in a year for one full-time developer. > >>> These two examples show that this works even over a longer period of > time > >>> (note that these projects are much smaller than LibreOffice): > >>> - Ardour (http://ardour.org): $4500 are raised every month to pay the > >>> main developer > >>> - Linux Mint (http://linuxmint.com): $5500 were raised in April to pay > >>> the main developer > >>> > >>> > >>> Despite from having full-time developers, for volunteer developers it > >>> would be nice to get money for fixing a specific bug / implementing a > >>> feature. Ardour has such a system where you can donate for a specific > issue: > >>> http://ardour.org/bugbounty > >>> I think something like this would bring great benefit to LO, since > users > >>> can show what they want to be fixed most and developers get some money > for > >>> coding (or at their option donate it to TDF). > >>> > >>> To be honest, if we could convince most school districts in any country > to > >> adopt the use of LibreOffice as their main suite, dropping MSO and > >> contributing a small percentage of their "per seat" cost savings, then > we > >> could see some distrcits paying to have accessibility issues worked on > or > >> some other aspect of LibreOffice that would be of interest to them. > >> > > > >In essence this was the idea behind setting up the INGOTs. Your idea is > >simpler *if* you can get agreement with large centralised bureaucracies. > >It's not easy, I have been trying for more than 10 years ;-) > > > >Schools in the UK make individual decisions about the resources they use. > We > >had to make INGOT certification wider than just OOo/LO simply because most > >are entrenched in MSO. OTOH we know some have switched as a result of > >learning more about FOSS through the certification process. If we can > >generate volume international take up, funding developers on the project > >would be easy. > > > > Whilst certification seems a good strategy, what about parental power > being exerted upon schools? One would imagine that if parents > (espcialy of low income families) were aware of free software, they > would implore schools to follow suit. >
How do you get to those parents? Through the schools? ..Wait, isn't it the schools that are not ready to change? See the problem? -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications The Schools ITQ www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
