Joshua D. Drake wrote:
I won't presume to speak for the core devs, but I gather the limiting
factor is time availability for the people with commit rights.
And to be clear I am hoping to rent 1-2+ months of full time
development from 1+ core developer. If this doesn't buy a substantial
advance in functionality then I'm paying the wrong person...
Well one issue you are going to run into is cost. I don't know about
Chris but for us to do that you are going to have to come up with (even
with a discounted rate) 20k+. That is with a significant discount off of
our normal rate.
What currency? USD? Seems not unreasonable (is that per month or for
two months?)
Given that I am happy to fund around $10K, but perhaps 50% of that is
held back to pay for some less general stuff which will be more useful
for me (in particular I would like a credit card terminal feature in the
software), I really don't see why a few other business won't stump up
some sensible money to sponsor some serious development and meet that
number?
At least where I live it cost me around $1,000 to buy *one* copy of MS
Office Std and Vista Ultimate (long story, don't ask why). My
accounting bill as a small company is north of $2K. My friend who has a
larger 10 person business pays around $12K/year for accountancy fees.
If this software can save me 30 minutes a day then it's worth paying for
because I will get that back in less than one year.
I hope that we will see 10-20 other businesses look to fund $2K+ each
(is that really so much for an unlimited licence for a bit of software?
It's one decent laptop? Sage would cost me more than that just in the
first year...), which would fund some substantial development time. I
would like to think that we will see businesses contribute around $40K+
which we can turn into some serious development...?
Step up to the plate folks - I really don't see why there should be any
hesitation to chuck down some money. I think many folks get blinded by
the "free" sticker and forget that it's ok to pay to see it improved.
Also I'm not proposing "sponsorship", I want to get value for money out
of *my* investment - I expected to get an agreed amount of hours full
time work on LSMB for the money I put down (so should you)...
OK, let me move aside to avoid the rush...
Ed W
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