From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-11-16T05:12:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Mendicant Post-Mortem

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Antonin Amand <antonin.amand@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice work Greg, I didn't had a look at the library yet but I like the
> concept of the project itself since the beginning.
>
> I'm dissapointed that their was no more companies to put some money on
> the table for this.
> Their is more an more companies that use Ruby out there and they'd
> propably save time and improve their services if they had a complete
> and stable PDF lib. Maybe the next time someone plegde for a project
> like this one, it would be a good idea to ask company to fund it.
> Maybe you did but it didn't worked ?

I didn't ask for funding, because I didn't have a particular project
set before I accepted donations, and also didn't want to feel like I
was working for a particular person or company, as the problem was
(and still pretty much is) too general.

That having been said, if any company wants to hire me part time to
work on Prawn, doing a project here or there for them as part of the
deal, they should contact me.

> I wish the story of funded open sources project is just beginning.

Me too.  There are all sorts of different ways funded free software
can happen, this is just one of them.  But I'd love to see more people
getting dedicated time to work on open source without having to burn
the candle at both ends.

-greg

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