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A project for discussing ways to fund open source development.
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_Note, in the spirit of #27, I'd like to state that I believe the following proposal to be primarily of interest for developer-facing, company independent solo-developers, small- and mid-size projects...
The most compelling argument (I felt) from @freakboy3742's keynote this morning at PyCon AU (and the one that immediately got my business brain pumping) was the Business Continuity Risk involved...
This is very similar to what numbapro and iopro did. Not sure how effective it was.
The BSL
Might be interesting to watch how this one goes: - Blogpost: http://monty-says.blogspot.de/2016/08/applying-business-source-licensing-bsl.html - Techcrunch article: https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/19/mysql-founder-tries-a-new-software-licensing-model/ - BSL FAQ: https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting
Was just thinking, does anyone have an idea of an approximate cost (in time) of maintaining an open source project. Perhaps per GitHub star per year? Maybe that's not the...
I'm wondering if pretty quickly we should be seeking to solidify some goals behind this repo / discussion. The problem is pretty well articulated but I'm not sure what we're...
[Games Done Quick](https://gamesdonequick.com/) is a great example of fundraising for good causes. Perhaps a sponsored marathon/hackathon model might work for short term fundraising efforts.
Does anyone know of a money distribution solver for a coding community(ie zeromq)? it may have shared money pool, code usage logging and a democratic way for establishing rules The...
Apologies for flamebait title, but this is a serious proposal. # Background From my vantage point, open source development has the following desireable properties: - Revolving door; anyone can contribute...
