[Ardour-Users] tax deductible Re: Ardour 2.8.5 released

[Bengt Gördén]

måndag 25 januari 2010 01:05:35 skrev  Paul Davis:
> in fact, its a minor miracle, and one for which i am genuinely
> thankful daily! can you name one other developer of open source
> software worldwide who gets paid for his work, can live (just about)
> from the proceeds, and is beholden to NOBODY but users? i can't. i
> feel blessed every day, and i can't thank the existing community
> enough for the gift they have given me. its beyond words.

I remember a similar situation a few years ago where Poul-Henning Kamp 
(freebsd) asked for support from the community.

After a  bit of googling (it's an official verb in Swedish now days) I found 
the funding page. It was in 2004 he asked for help and it was for 3 month of 
payed development.

http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/funding.html

I see a similar approach here. Asking the community for help seems to be the 
way to go. Probably the community doesn't give it all but it looks as it gives 
a boost to the donation effort from both individuals and organizations. It's 
the familiar snowball effect. One problem might be that it has to snow.


/bengan