Josiah, This has being discussed in the past, Eric Shulman raised some money by crowd source for some documentation in the past. There is always a degree of complexity in these questions given the strong "open source" nature of tiddlywiki. Any derivative work is only possible because of the prior and mostly volunteer work (excluding some support historically). There seems to me to be two areas where it may be helpful to allow/promote financial recompense;
1. Work on tiddlywiki or a necessary plugin for and on behalf of the community 2. When an adaption is created by a TiddlyWiki enthusiast/developer for a third party to do work or to meet a need I limit this to two as historically the value of tiddlywiki has being in adaptions being returned to the community for open use and I would like to see this continue, and I hope to contribute there myself. In the second case I believe there is some obligation to return any adaption back to the community even if you provided tiddlywiki design as a service, in effect to pay for the platform you are using. In the second case it may be more appropriate if the fee charged the third party was no more than providing their email address, to obtain access to a prepared adaption, or by commission to do the work to make a customised adaption, but any advances/plugins/techniques must be returned to the community. In the first case, it would be nice to build a pot of money perhaps through crowd sourcing that the community could then apply to good works on behalf of the community, but we do not want this to put a dampener on volentary contributions. As someone currently building a business I would love to include tiddlywiki in some services and solutions but do need to exact a fee so I may earn a "right livelihood". I would love to hear others perspective or example cases. Regards TonyM On Friday, July 28, 2017 at 8:09:44 AM UTC+10, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > Is ANYONE getting paid here? > > I Hope So. > > A few people do a LOT of work for nothing. > > There is *TALK* of financial help occasionally. > > I, personally, would prefer it was made real. > > That actual people, actually got paid, money. > > But to pay people you need a WAY to do it. > > TiddlyWiki in general is crap at this kind of thought. > > People say "yes" but remain in a fog of NOTHING HAPPENS. > > I expect this expletive to go down the same lonesome drain. > > Best wishes > Josiah > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8e026c58-b2cd-40b4-ac2c-41e4910725d0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
