Re: [linux-audio-dev] donations or sponsoring?

2007-02-06 Thread Richard Spindler
2007/2/6, Leonard Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: from http://www.leonard-ritter.com/donations_or_sponsoring I keep bouncing an idea in my head, thinking about how to strengthen the bonding between open source software developers and software users. Hi, a lot of interesting thoughts, and since

Re: [linux-audio-dev] donations or sponsoring?

2007-02-06 Thread Robin Gareus
Leonard Ritter wrote: How is a beginning open source project funded, usually? great goodness of heart and an ex-employer who lets you keep the keys - minimizing unnecessary accessories (shaving-kit, vacuum-cleaner, etc) helps a lot ;-) open-source coding is an Art not an Industry. - unless

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Commercial clone of ZynAddSubFX?

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Jonsson
Dave Phillips skrev: ... Zyn will occasionally just pop itself out of the JACK graph, I'm not sure why. I understand where this is coming from and Zyn is at fault here but the problem is not as grave as one can be led to believe, Zyn does not HAVE to be popped out. This all stems from the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] donations or sponsoring?

2007-02-06 Thread Leonard Ritter
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 12:58 +0100, Robin Gareus wrote: great goodness of heart and an ex-employer who lets you keep the keys - minimizing unnecessary accessories (shaving-kit, vacuum-cleaner, etc) helps a lot ;-) yes. open-source coding is an Art not an Industry. - unless you want to sell

Re: [linux-audio-dev] donations or sponsoring?

2007-02-06 Thread nick thomas
On 2/6/07, Leonard Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an open source developer, how are you going to sustain and finance ongoing development? Here's an excellent list of many ways to make money to fund an open source project: http://tinyurl.com/6w68a Most of them are more applicable to

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] donations or sponsoring?

2007-02-06 Thread Kai Vehmanen
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Leonard Ritter wrote: from http://www.leonard-ritter.com/donations_or_sponsoring I keep bouncing an idea in my head, thinking about how to strengthen the bonding between open source software developers and software users. Possibly old news, but in case you haven't read

Re: [linux-audio-dev] donations or sponsoring?

2007-02-06 Thread Tim Blechmann
(i find it a bit hard to follow this thread, if it's split to lad and lau, _please_ stick to one list) On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 11:58 -0500, nick thomas wrote: On 2/6/07, Leonard Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an open source developer, how are you going to sustain and finance ongoing

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] donations or sponsoring?

2007-02-06 Thread Leonard Ritter
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 22:56 +0200, Kai Vehmanen wrote: Possibly old news, but in case you haven't read this yet, Luis Villa has some excellent insights on the topic -- and especially the point that paying volunteers can have a counter-intuitive effect: this is not exactly what i was talking