>On 13 May 2011 21:50, e-letter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >On 12 May 2011 17:55, Marc Par=E9 <[email protected]> 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. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
