On 30.11.2005, at 18:30, (John Mettraux) wrote:
Maybe some kind of auction/market for features would be more attractive
than a partner program.
Yes I have planned this for a long time and in fact at the moment we
are looking for two projects to be sponsored
- ADS adapter
- portlet bridge
The development effort for each of these is roughly 20k CHF
* ADS will allow to use Magnolia with user management through ADS
* the portlet stuff will allow to do some fancy stuff with Magnolia
inside portlet containers
I plan to start a new section on the website asap to document these
If any of you SI's or agencies is interested in sponsoring these,
please let me know. The way it works is that you sell the feature to
your customer (optional :-) ), and once its sold, you decide upon the
amount you are willing to invest in the feature. Once the full amount
is covered through one or more companies, we start the work.
Any takers right now?
But in the end, salaries have to get paid.
exactly
A feature could have a price estimation. Companies/organizations could
bid for it, or negociate for a feature split.
One feature could be sponsored by multiple entities.
yes
Work would only begin once the money arrived.
exactly
(I'm sure I'm not the first to come up with such an idea)
you are not, but the idea is working in other places and we really need
to get started on it
Such an infrastructure could not be limited to Magnolia, it could
benefit a pool of open source projects.
well, I would start small ( a web page ;-)) since we have no resources
to build a complete system (or could we use ebay for it?)
Regards
Boris Kraft
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