How to fund an open-source project?

[Eleanor McHugh]

something of a lone wolf as I'm used to working solo on ambitious but =
underfunded commercial projects. It's not that I don't trust other =
people to pull their weight, just that it's a luxury I've never had!

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I think this kind of thing is a bootstrapping problem. For a lot of
companies they don't see the benefit in investing in something like = this
unless you are already using it. What about pushing it as a free time
project until you have enough working to use it in a money project, = then
use money projects to drive its development.

I'm already resigned to the likelihood that development will be unpaid =
and that building something because it's a good idea isn't necessarily a =
sane or rational choice. That said, as a sometime punk the DIY aspect of =
the project is irresistible

And I have had some good suggestions from here and from the LRUG list =
which I'll be following up on over the next few weeks.


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net

 

[Colin Bartlett]

My memory's mostly clouded by that poisonous climate change thread we had on here
earlier in the year so I'm glad I'm remembered for something else!

Curiously, until you reminded us about that climate change thread,
I'd completely forgotten about it, so I also associate you with other things!

 

[Eleanor McHugh]

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Curiously, until you reminded us about that climate change thread,
I'd completely forgotten about it, so I also associate you with other =

things!

In which case we can all slip back into collective amnesia


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
http://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanormchugh