Good post Eric. Count me in. I am off to PayPal with my pennies. I really like the idea of the Google Helpout function - many's the time I would have put the call out at some godforsaken hour gnashing my teeth at my coding non-prowess. If it came to be could Jeremy create a page in the tiddlywiki.com main site that directs users to HelpingTiddlyWikists who have demonstrated (through their service over the years, etc) that they are the most competent people to approach?
Dickon On Monday, 4 November 2013 11:14:37 UTC, Eric Shulman wrote: > > 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.
