Hi Eric Great document. I've had a very bad concience for a couple of years - because I really wanted to contribute to your tip jar, however my personal economic situation has been very bad too - and my own TiddlyWiki work hasn't really given me any extra personal income - even if it has helped me a lot - both professionally (I'm a teacher) and for personal (hobby) use.
Your writeup on how a little funding from "one percent" of the members might be able to fund your work to a great extent - and how this document - documents your never ending inclination to work for the community - if in anyway financially possible - has made me become both a "one time tipper" (25$) and setup a one-year pledge (gold: 30$ pr. month)... Thanks for being there for all of us. Great job! Cheers Måns Mårtensson Den mandag den 4. november 2013 12.14.37 UTC+1 skrev Eric Shulman: > > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
