Dave Crossland wrote: > Here is the recipe for any user to kickstart the development of a free > software project with no initial funding. > > 1. Estimate the cost of the initial development of the project, "£A" > > 2. Estimate the number of people who want that development work done > and are willing to pay for it, "B" > > 3. Divide £A by B to make £C. > > 4. Set up a pledgebank for your project for 2B people at £C cost. > (more people pledge than pay) > > 5. Publicise the pledgebank until enough people sign it > > 6. Collect their money - perhaps using the SFLC Conservancy or your > own USA 501c3(?) non-profit organisation to make payments tax > deductible in the USA and encourage corporate donations. > > 7. Post a job ad on gnuherds.org or similar for developers. Pay > them Google Summer of Code style. > > 8. Enjoy. > > > (It would be cool if GNU Herds _was_ a pledgebank :-)
IMHO it seems a good idea Dave! Besides the code development, there is some work to do to collect the money. I do not know if the idea is perfect, as you exposed it, or can be improved. Any comment? I have registered such new task: task: http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?7705 Anyway, note I think we do not have human resources to develop it right now. Would like some body take on it? Else we can analyze it later. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
