Re: Renting Developer time to advance 1.3/1.4 - anyone want to chip in?

["Joshua D. Drake" <..hidden..>]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 21:40 +0100, Ed W wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> > Well one issue you are going to run into is cost. I don't know about
> > Chris but for us to do that you are going to have to come up with (even
> > with a discounted rate) 20k+. That is with a significant discount off of
> > our normal rate.
> >   
> 
> 
> What currency?  USD?  Seems not unreasonable (is that per month or for
> two months?)

Yes that would be USD for ~ 20 hours a week, 8 weeks.

> 
> Given that I am happy to fund around $10K, but perhaps 50% of that is
> held back to pay for some less general stuff which will be more useful
> for me (in particular I would like a credit card terminal feature in
> the software), I really don't see why a few other business won't stump
> up some sensible money to sponsor some serious development and meet
> that number?

Many feel open source should be free. CMD makes 99% of its money not
from what we want to make money from (which is developing PostgreSQL) we
make it from supporting it.


> I hope that we will see 10-20 other businesses look to fund $2K+ each
> (is that really so much for an unlimited licence for a bit of
> software?  It's one decent laptop? Sage would cost me more than that

We do know of one company that has funded a *lot* of money toward the
development of LedgerSMB. You are not alone in your quest.

>  just in the first year...), which would fund some substantial
> development time.  I would like to think that we will see businesses
> contribute around $40K+ which we can turn into some serious
> development...?
> 

Yes it definitely can.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake