From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-12-24T01:00:12+09:00
Subject: Re: How to fund an open-source project?

On 22 Dec 2009, at 02:02, Edward Middleton wrote:
> 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.

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
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