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

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

> On 29 Jan 2015, at 20:46, Diez B. Roggisch <de...@we...> wrote:
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> Hi,
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>> On 29 Jan 2015, at 19:20, Ronald Oussoren <ron...@ma... <mailto:ron...@ma...>> wrote:
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>>> On 10 Dec 2014, at 23:11, Ronald Oussoren <ron...@ma... <mailto: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.
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> This is not from personal experience, but observation of other maintainers e.g. like Christian Tismer & the psyco optimizing Python JIT, and the stackless python implementation.
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> For both cases, he scored consulting gigs with companies that heavily used his projects, so that he could work on them and improve them. One was a computer trading company somewhere in the US, the other with the game studio CCP of Eve Online fame.
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> So my suggestion would be to seek out companies that use pyobjc, and ask if they have an interest in employing you, on whatever base.
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> Sorry that I can’t be of more help - crowd-funding has not worked for me so far, as these things seem to need (in my limited perception, not really deeply surveyed the landscape) a goal that has a certain “sexyness” (in lieu of a better term) - usually, that means a consumer product, such as a game, or self-driving cool box or some such.

That’s my perception as well.   A site like kickstarter also appears to require you to work on a specific product (a gadget, new software, …) and not ongoing development of an existing project.  

Ronald

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> Diez