HI Anna,

There's a catch-22 in raising funds

for community-developed software.

In order to raise funds for feature development,

the work must to be broken down into defined tasks

which are (presumably) achievable and testable.

The money amount requested during the fund drive

reflects the total of manhours estimated to achieve these tasks.

But getting this defined list of tasks is the roadblock.

Question: Is it acceptable for fundraisers to

cover the cost of developing the estimate,

so that the design team gets reimbursed for conducting

a proper engineering effort?

How does Open Funding handle 'back payments'

for engineering work?

Any thoughts?

- Susan

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Anna Morris <gingerling@...3060...> wrote:

Hi,

Firstly, I am a big Inkscape fan, I have used it for various projects in the past year, this is my favorite http://fsfe.org/graphics/xbox-infographic.png (ie. I am not a spammer, lol)

So, my email is about funding. I am working with Open Funding http://funding.openinitiative.com/ to assist developers to get crowd funding for Free Software. Open Funding works on a feature by feature basis. For example the core-team at gimp are funding a symmetry painting feature at the moment http://funding.openinitiative.com/funding/1578/

I am not sure how Inkscape is funded at the moment, but I would very much like to assist any developer(s) to get funding for a feature. Also, if you don't need/want to earn money for your work, you could always donate the funds to the project in general.

This small scale funding is a great way for users (like myself) to give back, which they are often eager to do, but in a way which is very concrete, forward thinking and achievable. Its much simpler to set up than a large kickstarter campaign and is more deeply routed in the function of the software.

Please let me know what you think and if you are interested in getting funding this way, either as a group of core-developers or, if not, as an individual developer.

Thanks

Anna Morris

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