From: Edward Middleton <emiddleton@...>
Date: 2009-12-22T11:02:53+09:00
Subject: Re: How to fund an open-source project?

Eleanor McHugh wrote:
> Naturally I'm also looking for collaborators but I'll admit to being 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!
>   

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.

Edward