[tdf-discuss] Re: Paid developers

> On 13 May 2011 21:50, e-letter <inpost@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > On 12 May 2011 17:55, Marc Par=E9 <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Le 2011-05-11 17:01, Samuel M a =E9crit :
> > > >
> > > >  I believe, that The Document Foundation can employ Developers for
> > > > > LibreOffice. I believe the community is able to get the money for that
> > on a
> > > > > monthly base.
> > > > >
> > > > > We saw that the community was able to rise 50.000=80 in 8(!) days. It
> > will
> > > > > be possible to get that money in a year for one full-time developer.
> > > > > These two examples show that this works even over a longer period of
> > time
> > > > > (note that these projects are much smaller than LibreOffice):
> > > > > - Ardour (http://ardour.org): $4500 are raised every month to pay the
> > > > > main developer
> > > > > - Linux Mint (http://linuxmint.com): $5500 were raised in April to pay
> > > > > the main developer
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Despite from having full-time developers, for volunteer developers it
> > > > > would be nice to get money for fixing a specific bug / implementing a
> > > > > feature. Ardour has such a system where you can donate for a specific
> > issue:
> > > > > http://ardour.org/bugbounty
> > > > > I think something like this would bring great benefit to LO, since
> > users
> > > > > can show what they want to be fixed most and developers get some money
> > for
> > > > > coding (or at their option donate it to TDF).
> > > > >
> > > > > To be honest, if we could convince most school districts in any count=
> ry
> > to
> > > > adopt the use of LibreOffice as their main suite, dropping MSO and
> > > > contributing a small percentage of their "per seat" cost savings, then
> > we
> > > > could see some distrcits paying to have accessibility issues worked on
> > or
> > > > some other aspect of LibreOffice that would be of interest to them.
> > >
> > > In essence this was the idea behind setting up the INGOTs. Your idea is
> > > simpler *if* you can get agreement with large centralised bureaucracies.
> > > It's not easy, I have been trying for more than 10 years ;-)
> > >
> > > Schools in the UK make individual decisions about the resources they use.
> > We
> > > had to make INGOT certification wider than just OOo/LO simply because mo=
> st
> > > are entrenched in MSO. OTOH we know some have switched as a result of
> > > learning more about FOSS through the certification process.  If we can
> > > generate volume international take up, funding developers on the project
> > > would be easy.
> >
> > Whilst certification seems a good strategy, what about parental power
> > being exerted upon schools? One would imagine that if parents
> > (espcialy of low income families) were aware of free software, they
> > would implore schools to follow suit.
>
> How do you get to those parents? Through the schools? ..Wait, isn't it the
> schools that are not ready to change?
>
> See the problem?

Perhaps, but one would have expected parents and/or pupils to search
via internet for 'free word processor' and hopefully an open source
product would appear prominently in the search results.

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