Re: OGo Donation

Hi,

since nobody else is reponding ;-)

On 19.10.2003, at 14:19, Dan Bar wrote:
> There is a lot of feature requests in Bugzilla.

Yes, I posted a lot of requests we got for SKYRiX into the OGo Bugzilla.

> Others in minds of OGo users.

This needs to be reduced! Ideas should be posted in Bugzilla!

> It seems that most of work is now done (and paid) by SKYRiX.

Yes, OGo is less than a half year old, so this is probably only natural.

> And SKYRiX wish to make money first (I believe :) so some of these 
> features are certainly not on top.

Correct. SKYRIX AG usually only implements features paid for by 
customers.

> Question is: are there any people who may want to donate OGo (in 
> general or just their most needed feature requests) so someone (from 
> SKYRiX ?? or some third party developer) may get necessary resources 
> to spent some time on it? I'm not talking about great amounts of money 
> but something like paypal way of donation.

Actually we have thought about that issue at SKYRIX AG as well - this 
is called "power shopping" (some people reserve the money a feature is 
worth for them and if enough people join, the feature is implemented). 
Unfortunately this is hard to implement (business wise).

> Just an idea. I'm certainly not going to pay money for commercial 
> version of OGo, but some kind donation to most needed features 
> (Unicode) is possible.

Well, Unicode is (unfortunately) also one of those features which would 
consume major amounts of work (at *least* two weeks, more likely 
something like four weeks of work), yet only relatively few people are 
actually *seriously* interested in it.
So to finance that using PayPal like contributions ($50-$100), you 
would need to find hundreds of people, which will be hard (but not 
impossible).

regards,
   Helge
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