+1. I donated to the Zone OCR campaign to support Mayan, not because I needed that particular feature. Maybe others chose not to chip in because they didn't have any need for Zone OCR at the moment (it is a really cool feature though, maybe it would even be possible to have some machine learning source that you can train to do OCR on certain structures of a document some time in the future). Mayan is an amazing piece of work and it's incredible that you provide it for free, fully open source and not only a restricted community edition while trying to sell a pro edition like many others would have done. The support you provide is even more incredible, every problem that is raised gets addressed very quickly and very often resolved within a few hours.
I really do hope there is a way that this becomes sustainable somehow. Best Regards, Jesaja Everling On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:07 PM, David Kornahrens < [email protected]> wrote: > Roberto - > This is also sad to hear. Especially with us just now ramping up your > product. > > Everything I have ever requested, you have completed or at least been > working on. I would like to perhaps partner with someone to come up with > the remaining funds you need to complete this step in the project. > > If it would help, I can also start up my support plan (you even created a > government plan for me) tomorrow. I have just been too busy. > > Let me, let us, know what we can do to help you get over this hump and > continue on with Mayan EMDS, which some of us have grown to love. > > > > On Friday, August 18, 2017 at 1:14:20 PM UTC-4, Roberto Rosario wrote: > >> Repost from the web: https://www.mayan-edms.com/pos >> t/first-crowdfunding-over/ >> >> >> Sadly, the attempt to use crowdfunding to add the zone OCR feature was >>> not successful. >>> >>> The original goal was to raise $720 USD to hire a frontend developer >>> knowledgeable in the topic, while I would work on the backend side of >>> things. The final result for the campaign was $330 or 46% of the goal. I’m >>> very grateful to the backers of the campaign: >>> >>> - Matthias Löblich >>> - Douglas Van Es >>> - Marek Stopka >>> - Jesaja Everling >>> - Matthias Sieke >>> - Korbinian Preisler >>> >>> Since the campaign was a fixed goal campaign, we get nothing if the goal >>> was not reached. The running time for the campaign was 30 days. >>> >>> What went wrong? Hard to say. The analytics showed increased traffic to >>> the site for the 30 days of the campaign. A quick search shows good SEO and >>> we even got several extra thousand visits just from the Hacker News post. >>> The exposure was good. Given the traffic, even with a worst case scenario >>> of 1% conversion rate, there should have been enough backing to reach the >>> funding goal. >>> >>> The growth and the amount of work the project requires mean that a >>> source of reliable and adequate funding needs to be created/found to keep >>> the project sustainable. This is not the first attempt to raise funds for >>> the project that has failed. >>> >>> It is not possible to continue devoting the current amount of time and >>> routing resources from my commercial ventures to the project. It is with a >>> heavy heart that I must accept that the future of the Mayan EDMS is >>> uncertain at the moment. >>> >> -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Mayan EDMS" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mayan EDMS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
