A New Free Software Donation Directory

Wolfgang Spraul writes: "CoSource and SourceXchange are closed. They became part of the history of Open Source Software Markets. However, I still need a place where I can find maintainers or core developers of existing Free Software packages that accept my feature request and payment, implement the feature within a reasonable timeframe and give me support if it doesn't work in my environment. Since no such place is in sight, I launched the Free Software Donation Directory as a first step. What do you think? How should the next Free Software market look like? Should there be one at all?" Right now, he's got around 20 projects listed, if you care to invest in some Free software.

Comments

Why use directories?

[wackybrit]

While your site looks quite good, why do we need a directory specifically for projects that accept donations? Isn't that like creating a new Google just for open source software? Why not just use the resources we already have?

Open source projects can say easily enough on their own Web pages whether they accept donations or not, and can also put this information on their SourceForge.

To that end, I think this would be an area where SourceForge could help. Sure, SourceForge might not be ideal, but it's the one place where almost all open source projects are listed.