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What do you think about crowd-funding further development of existing open source project? Did something like this happen? Pay as you want for books is good id
by lpelszyn 12y ago
What do you think about crowd-funding further development of existing open source project? Did something like this happen?
Pay as you want for books is good idea, as long as you know what to expect. Good job on summarizing the outcome :)
- sudapl 12y agoThe problem is, you never know how much people will pay in this model. I wonder what are the factors that would increase average price.
- kubindurion 12y agothere should be some additional mechanism, if you pay more than average than you get X
- olasitarska 12y agoSo it's Humble Bundle style, right? It could work if you have more than 1 item. https://www.humblebundle.com/ https://www.humblebundle.com/
- xamebax 12y agorvm (an open source tool for managing your Ruby environment) had a crowd-funding campaign: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/rvm/fundraiser https://www.bountysource.com/teams/rvm/fundraiser They collected all the cash they needed, the maintainer took a break for some time, and now they're working on the next major release.