Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations system: pay for a feature

Spending money, via donations, geared to one feature and not the whole 
package can be a VERY bad marketing issue.

I never liked it.  If you donate money to one feature and it does not 
get added, or fixed, in "your time line" and not the developer's, it can 
be a mess.

We do not know what can be fixed easily, or if something that looks 
simple will be a real hard add or fix.  The simple things tend to be not 
so simple.

We cannot even make a paper trail to show an agency [required by] that 
the donation towards a "feature" would even go to it.  That would make a 
big legal mess.

Paying a third party to "fix" things has been used by spammers for a 
long time.

On 05/15/2013 01:22 PM, Joel Madero wrote:
> Well some are already doing this through 3rd party places, we won't do it
> internally as I think it's prevented due to our non profit nature but third
> party sites do allow it. One such site is freedomsponsors.org, this is NOT
> officially sanctioned by TDF but some people do indeed contribute there and
> then post on the bug "I have pledged $X on freedomsponsor for a fix"
>
>
> Best,
> Joel
>
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Guillermo Molleda Jimena <gmolleda@us.es>wrote:
>
> > Traducción de texto o de páginas web
> > I think it would be good to allow donations to certain feature of the
> > program.
> > If there is a particular functionality, the team could estimate cost as a
> > budget with a code attached. If the donations do you put the code, once you
> > reach the budget target the team could prioritize such development.
> >
> > It seems right??
> >
> >
> > Translated with Google, I know Spanish, I am willing to learn Esperanto,
> > but impose English as the national language is any unfair.
> > Escribe texto o la dirección de un sitio web, o bien, traduce un documento
> > <http://translate.google.com/?**tr=f&hl=es<http://translate.google.com/?tr=f&hl=es>
> > > .
> > Cancelar <http://translate.google.com/?**tr=t&hl=es<http://translate.google.com/?tr=t&hl=es>
> > Ejemplo del uso de "":
> > traducido automáticamente por Google
> >
> >
> > El 15/05/13 17:04, Carlo Strata escribió:
> >
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > > are there some plans to extend PDF/A export to new versions of that
> > > standard other than and in addition to PDF/A-1?
> > > I mean PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 that are already ISO standards:
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**PDF/A <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A>
> > >
> > > Nice Google SoC activity? ;-)
> > >
> > > Have All a sunny day,
> > >
> > > Carlo
> > --
> > Usa el esperanto para acelerar el aprendizaje de idiomas, ganarás años
> > como demuestran los estudios científicos realizados (
> > http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Valor_proped%C3%A9utico_del_**esperanto<http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valor_proped%C3%A9utico_del_esperanto>).
> > Puede leer más sobre el idioma en http://personal.us.es/**
> > gmolleda/lingvoj.html <http://personal.us.es/gmolleda/lingvoj.html>,
> > http://www.2-2.se/es/ y 
> > http://esperantofre.com/edu/**iloj01h.htm#celo<http://esperantofre.com/edu/iloj01h.htm#celo>
> > .
> >
> > El inglés, francés, alemán o chino mandarín son muy ineficientes para su
> > aprendizaje como segundo idioma (mejor tercero) y fuente de grandes
> > movimientos de divisas de países pobres hacia los más ricos. Igual que
> > aprendes a escribir primero trazos y no directamente las letras, es mejor
> > para el cerebro aprender primero una lengua regular y planificada.
> >
> > *******************************************************
> >                Guillermo Molleda Jimena
> >
> >          Departamento de Economía Financiera y
> >                Dirección de Operaciones
> >             Facultad de Turismo y Finanzas
> >                 Universidad de Sevilla
> >
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> >
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