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

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

> On 29 Jan 2015, at 21:17, Chris Barker <chr...@no...> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:20 AM, 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? 
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> I guess not. I’m still interested in idea’s on how to improve development/support for PyObjC.
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> 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?

Currently in a limited way, I’d have to take time of from work to put in more time. My initial mail was in a large part triggered by frustration about the fairly large gap between the amount of work that needs to done and the time I have available at moment (and have had for the last year).   

What also doesn’t help is that I’m currently primarily working on updating the PyObjC framework wrappers with support for APIs introduced in OSX 10.9 and 10.10, and that’s pretty boring work. I’m reaching the end of that task although the last few frameworks are the most complicated in this regard.   When that’s done it should be easier to find the motivation to move forward again with real development.

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> Maybe kick starter? thought this:
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> http://blog.felixbreuer.net/2013/04/24/crowdfunding-for-open-source.html <http://blog.felixbreuer.net/2013/04/24/crowdfunding-for-open-source.html>
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> indicates that it doesn't work well for Open source projects.

That’s the impression I got as well. What doesn’t help in that regard is that Python OSX GUI development is a fairly small niche, and I have no idea how large that niche is.

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> Are you set up with a consultancy so that people could pay you for a particular bug fix or feature?

Nope.  Although that should be not to hard to do when there’d be a reason to do so (he said without having any experience in doing so). I’m currently full-time employed doing consultancy, and the last couple of years that has been mostly Linux and not OSX work.

Ronald