Greetings TiddlyFriends! Open source projects combine the skills and resources of a community for the benefit of the entire group. In addition to active, spontaneous participation, most open source projects also need some essential technical resources and a small dedicated core group of "key contributors" as well as real operating funds in order to maintain the systems, services, and people that keep the project alive and thriving.
Unfortunately, many open source projects are seriously underfunded, and TiddlyWiki is no exception to that pattern. As Thanksgiving and the Winter season holidays are fast approaching, now is a good time to give thanks and add your favorite open source project (TiddlyWiki, of course!) to your gift giving plans. To avoid the "TL;DR effect" (too long; didn't read) of a long online post, I've written a TiddlyWiki Classic document that provides some background information about the current funding situation and suggest some practical goals for generating revenue through "community funding" strategies. It's posted here: http://tiddlytools.github.com/fundraising.html Please read this document at your earliest opportunity, and then make a donation (http://tiddlytools.github.com/fundraising.html#MakeADonation<http://tiddlytools.github.io/fundraising.html#MakeADonation>) that reflects your own sense of the real-world value of the benefits that you've actually received. Whether you can afford to donate just a small amount every now and then, or make a regular monthly pledge or even a generous lump-sum contribution, if enough people in donate on a consistent basis, I believe it can add up to an amount capable of supporting all the needs of the TiddlyWiki community. enjoy, -e Eric Shulman TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios HELP ME TO HELP YOU - MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO MY "TIP JAR"... http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#Donations Professional TiddlyWiki Consulting Services... Analysis, Design, and Custom Solutions: http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#Contact -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
