Le 10 nov. 04, � 09:47, Derek Hohls a �crit :
...I take the example of the BoardGameGeek community; a completely ad-hoc group of 'net users who share a common passion for games. When the server the site was running on needed an upgrade, there was a call for donations (via pay-pal) and within in a *few days* there was enough money to do this (and this was just private individuals, mind you)...
And mozilla raised 250k recently [1], so it's doable for sure. But it has to be done in a very strict and clean way - we don't want greed or politics to get in the way.
And sponsoring should not favor committers vs. non-committers - we don't want committership to be related to money here.
So there are some serious concerns to consider. But I'll keep dreaming about it, and hopefully find a way to do a concrete experiment...
...NB I assume here that people are contributing to get Cocoon as a whole improved and NOT for developers to work on their own "pet projects" - this should happen via normal workplace employment methods!..
Of course, agreed.
-Bertrand
[1] http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=5442
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