One small correction: it's CA$30,000, not US$30,000. Given the exchange rate, it's actually considerably LESS money!
SergeStinckwich wrote > hi Horrido, > > I would like to thank you for your effort to organize this competition. > > But for the amount you are asking (30K USD), I don't expect that much > people to participate if you don't give them > more feedback and information on your project. You have too look how > successful crowdfunding campaigns are working. > Recently, one of my friend Gael Duval organize a crowd campaign to fund a > a > new mobile OS that is privacy-enable and ask 25K Euros (less than you, but > receive 95K Euros at the end) and put a lot of energy and info during > several months too convince people: > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/290746744/eelo-a-mobile-os-and-web-services-in-the-public-in > > Ok, the subject is completely different and maybe his topic is sensible > for > a lot of people but the concerns are the same. At the end, you need to > convince people to give you money. > > What is your budget ? what kind of competition you will organize ? how you > will convince schools/university to participate ? > How you will reward people for their participation ? > > Sorry to say, people will not give money just because you wrote a > half-page > statement. > > Best, > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 11:23 AM horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: > >> I'm disappointed in the response. Only two contributors of $100 each. >> This >> is >> extremely tepid. >> >> There must be thousands of Smalltalkers around the world. How to reach >> out >> to them? It can't be that hard to fund this contest. I mean, there are >> many >> stupid causes on GoFundMe that have raised tens of thousands of dollars! >> This Smalltalk programming competition is anything but stupid. >> >> If only 1500 Smalltalkers each contributed a paltry $20, the contest >> would >> be fully funded. It would only take 300 contributors of $100 each. >> >> The question is: How much do we care about the future of Smalltalk? >> >> >> >> -- >> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html >> >> > > -- > Serge Stinckwich > UMI UMMISCO 209 (SU/IRD/UY1) > "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for > machines to execute."http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/ -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html