On 9/24/10, Ted Gould wrote:
Lastly, I'll say that when Linux Fund came and offered half of the money for a project, the community didn't exactly come up with the other half quickly and fund that project. I think while everyone says "I've got a bit of money" they don't have any agreement on where that should go so there's never a pot big enough to actually implement any of the features people want to pay for.
AFAIK, there were two stages of the LinuxFund story.
The first stage was when we said "'ullo? Anybody there? May we please gain some of you attention to a little project that might come in handy to you, if you have two minutes of your time?"
And the there was the second stage when Jon Cruz was lining everybody in ranks and shouting "Quick! All the money you can give! Best project of this century! If will be telling your grandchildren how you participated!" :)
Oh, there was the third stage actually too, when Tav came and bloody well did what was due to be done.
In other words, we have a lot to learn about marketing and crowdsfunding.
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org