Hi Dirk, Very interesting ideas. I think I'll try to group/sumarize all somewhere. I don't know where and when though :)
About "Google summer of code", it is said: "Google will provide a stipend of 5000 USD per accepted student developer, of which 4500 USD goes to the student and 500 USD goes to the mentoring organization." Sukender PVLE - Lightweight cross-platform game engine - http://pvle.sourceforge.net/ Le Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:25:04 +0100, Dirk Uys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit: > I few things I can think of: > > * Google summer of code is one way to get funding for an open source > project. You will have to employ someone still studying, but I think > that the mentoring project also gets some funds. > > * I remember reading on the website of damn small linux that they > largely make their money from advertising. I don't like it, but they > manage to get a consistent income from it. > > * Selling resource DVDs/blue-rays may also be an option. Maybe even > external hard drives with big terrains on them? It's not a matter of > making the product propriety, but downloading 20+ gig can be a problem > for a lot of people. > > * Bounties can also be used. A user/developer would put a bounty on a > feature that he/she does not have time to implement and whoever > completes the feature gets the bounty. > > * Blender is selling a lot of merchandise. Not only tea shirts and > mugs, but also printed books on blender and resource CD. I have also > seen other people selling video tutorials, some of them was really > impressive! > > * The linux kernel has an interesting model, there are a lot of > developers and my guess is that most of them are paid, but not by a > single entity. > > Funding for open source software is always a bit fuzzy. I think that a > single source of income will never be able to employ a whole team. > > Regards > Dirk > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
