off topic : mixed Qt components for maemo/meego are gonna be released soon ,may be on monday ,so stay tuned ,even stskeeps is helping people for maemo/meego projects at the moment .Its just that he does not come here ,doesnt mean he has forgotten us completely ,No he has not .i am just waiting for monday good news from inean & kate (2 main developers) who have edited the Qt for meego apps so that they cant be ported to N900 easily .For more info ,wait till monday
on topic : 10 $ isnt a big money ,every one can donate that . i expect from every one .maemo is always alive and is gonna remain like that .
stay cheerio
I rather think about donation for keeping servers/repositories alive, i.e. self-funding of Maemo (under different name, probably, due to trademark issues).
Still, I would donate much more without any doubt. Ho ever, for me it should be "how much would you like to donate a year". cause now it's very unclear - one time donation, once for year, once for month?
How much money do we need to actually make this a feasible option?
On a related note Nokia did donate $50000 to the gnome foundation to work on the hildon stuff. Read this and this. It shows an example of what you get with that amount of money.
I rather think about donation for keeping servers/repositories alive
We're not in a hurry to start passing around the hat for that one. But IMO that is the way to go after Nokia stops paying the bills (as discussed in some other thread already).
On a related note Nokia did donate $50000 to the gnome foundation to work on the hildon stuff. Read this and this. It shows an example of what you get with that amount of money.
So if around 10% of Maemo members donated $10 in round one of funding that would raise $55000, which considering the amount of work GTK+ involved should buy quite a bit [from http://www.igalia.com
So if around 10% of Maemo members donated $10 in round one of funding that would raise $55000, which considering the amount of work GTK+ involved should buy quite a bit [from http://www.igalia.com
But do we have 5,500 ACTIVE members? I doubt it...
I'd say we have around maybe 100 very active members* and maybe around MAXIMUM 1000 somewhat active members**. The rest of the people are all dormant. Now even if all these 1000 people donate on an average 15$, that comes to about 15k $. And I feel that even that is very optimistic.
So, lets think this way, with 15k $, what can we do?
*posts/browses TMO weekly
**posts/browses atleast once a month
