From: Phillip Gawlowski <pg@...>
Date: 2009-12-18T16:11:19+09:00
Subject: Re: How to fund an open-source project?

On 18.12.2009 00:19, Eleanor McHugh wrote:

> It's potentially a big project and I'd like to be able to work on it full-time so as to make reasonable progress in the coming year but I'm completely clueless about how to raise sponsorship or even whether that's practical. Does anyone with greater experience of driving an OSS project have any advice they're willing to share on this or any related topics?

Is progress more important, or hacking on it?

If the former, do what other OSS projects do, find volunteers, and share 
the workload. That should be comparatively easy, but requires a lot of 
public relation work which can be quite Non Fun. Then there's the 
collaboration tools that'll be required, and you can find yourself doing 
managerial stuff full time instead of, well, doing the fun bits.

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Phillip Gawlowski