> If 40 people offer $10, then we could do this. If 20 people offered > $20... you get the idea.
I am in, up to $40 or so. jonas From tobias.luetke at gmail.com Sun Jul 24 11:13:02 2005 From: tobias.luetke at gmail.com (Tobias Luetke) Date: Sun Jul 24 11:07:52 2005 Subject: [typo] Themes in Typo - fundraiser In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey Robby, Thanks for bringing this to the ML. Lets do it. Themes are the missing part in the puzzle. slaird is working hard today on the theming engine. Once its up we should use this to get us a slashdotting. We recently registered domains for typo as well. www.typosphere.com/org and www.typocosmy.com/org can now be used for a proper home page. On 7/24/05, Robby Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just starting a thread... :-) > > Some people in #typo earlier were discussing some ideas of how to get a > bunch of themes added to Typo. One idea was to hold a contest where > people would submit their themes and the winner would win a prize. One > prize idea was an iPod. This would cost less than $400, so the Typo > group would need to get some money together to pay for this. > > If 40 people offer $10, then we could do this. If 20 people offered > $20... you get the idea. > > So, what if we put together a website for Typo, setup some neat ajax > stuff that people could put on their site that would show how much money > has been raised so far, etc... and then work on setting up rules for a > theme submission contest. > > It's nothing new in the open source community and it seems to have been > a good way to accomplish this sort of thing before. I think it'd be a > good idea. > > Thoughts? > > ..it's late, bed time. > > Cheers, > > -Robby > > -- > /****************************************************** > * Robby Russell, Owner.Developer.Geek > * PLANET ARGON, Open Source Solutions & Web Hosting > * Portland, Oregon | p: 503.351.4730 | f: 815.642.4068 > * www.planetargon.com | www.robbyonrails.com > *******************************************************/ > > _______________________________________________ > Typo-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list > -- Tobi http://www.snowdevil.ca - Snowboards that don't suck http://typo.leetsoft.com - Open source weblog engine http://blog.leetsoft.com - Technical weblog
