Re: [Pyobjc-dev] [Pythonmac-SIG] Moving PyObjC and py2app forward

[Chris B. <chr...@no...>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ron...@ma...>
wrote:

> I’m not sure how to make serious progress with my current load (both work
> and privately).  Does anyone have experience with crowd-funding for
> open-source work?
>
>
> I guess not. I’m still interested in idea’s on how to improve
> development/support for PyObjC.
>

I sure don't have any experience with crown funding. But are you  saying
that you could put time into it if you could get paid?

Maybe kick starter? thought this:

http://blog.felixbreuer.net/2013/04/24/crowdfunding-for-open-source.html

indicates that it doesn't work well for Open source projects.

Are you set up with a consultancy so that people could pay you for a
particular bug fix or feature? For example, the  US federal government
(which I work for) can not donate to anything. We can, however, pay a
contractor to provide a particular service.

As an example, we are right now wrestling with PY2App to distribute a
product. If we could have hired you to get that all set up for us, then you
may have been able to get a few bugs fixed, while we could have gotten what
we needed to economically.

NOTE: it's too late now, and It might have been difficult for us to
contract with a non-US entity, but you get the idea.

As a matter of fact, we did something much like this with Robin Dunn, the
wxPython developer -- we hired him to extend an app of ours that required
some updating/improving of wxPython.

-Chris


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