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Funding Open Source?
An Open Investment...
Luke asks: "Open Investment is a concept whereby Open Source principles are applied to making money. Open Investment is inspired by recent articles and diary entries, on Advogato, lamenting the lack of funding of strategic projects. Eric S. Raymond's 'Cathedral and the Bazaar' papers describe how Open Source projects get off the ground by starting as a programmer's itch turning into something useful to other people.
What if there are strategically important projects that just take too long to ever get off the ground, such as
an Open Exchange replacement? With the Economist's recent news on how users expect more and more from IT, how is the Open Source community ever going to keep up? Who is going to pay for it?
The principle behind the Open Investment Initiative is to
encourage the Open Source Community to take matters into
their own hands, by getting smarter about money. If that
happens to mean that programmers become part-time wheeler-dealers and happen to _like_ it better than programming, then good for them! Open source developers (or anybody else for that matter) could even band together to form investment syndicates, with the aim of gaining financial independence.
For the most part, the expectation is that several smart people willing to learn about investing, negotiating and making money get together, and succeed where they would be unable or unwilling to do anything on their own.
Who wants to give it a shot?"
...for a Common Situation?
Yaztromo asks: "I'm the project administrator and lead developer for an Open Source project that brings PalmOS handheld synchronization to Java-enabled platforms, called the jSyncManager.
I started the project back in 1997 for personal use (the full history of the project as available here), and in November of 2002 decided to make it Open Source under the GPL (although parts have since had their license changed to the LGPL to make using our API (especially our plugin APIs) easier for all kinds of developers). After about 8 months we're getting pretty close to final releases of the project for public consumption.
So I've been at this for 8 months, with some success, but am getting to the point where two things concern me:
- How do I best market my project?
- How can I raise funds to help continue the project?
How have you raised your Open Source projects public profile (particularly if it isn't something that is of general use), and how have you gone about obtaining funding to help take care of those annoying little costs that creep up along the way?"
What happened to Jane? Did her job get moved to India, where Joni works?
David is walking back to the kitchen still wondering, why he likes
this so much. He never dreamed about having a Master, someone telling
him
what to do. And now.. in 24 hours later, he is
accepting all the orders given by a man he hardly knows.
On the other hand, he trusted this man, had great sex with him.
Peter is trustworthy, he decides.
Looking down at his prick, already at half-mast again, David knows it.
He, David, likes to be ordered around by this beautiful man.
He wonders what will happen this morning, this weekend, this year.
Will they develop a relationship, or is this only a one night stand?
Will it be just sex? He does not know.
He does know, that he wants more, but David feels so young compared to
this
great man. Suely, his body, can not be interesting to Peter!
He is not used to take the orders, in the way Peter
gives them to him. Why on earth, would such a man want to be his
partner?
Occupied with all these thoughs he nearly forgets the coffee, along
with
everything else.
Then he feels a warm hand is on his shoulder.
"Are you having some bad thoughts, Boy?"
"Sorry", David's face turns red and says, "Just thinking, Sir".
Peter is dressed now in a white jockeys. The outline of his big,
beautiful cock can be seen clearly.
David, himself is still naked, he feels so small compared to this
hunk.
He takes two cups, and pours the coffee into them.
Peter is sitting down at the kitchen table.
David does not know what to do. May he sit?
Peter is reading his mind, "You can sit on a chair, Boy"
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Peter aims his cock right towards his beautiful mouth and looks
directly into
those eager and pleading eyes.
He puts his cockhead just on David's tongue... to give him a first
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David feels the cockhead on his tongue and tastes it.
This is nectar for him. Just the smell.
Peter shoves his cock further into his boy's mouth.
David trys not to gag. He wants this big cock all the way inside.
Peter shoves his big monster inside the kneeling boy's mouth.
He is getting harder while doing so.
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David is doing his very best, he wants it so badly! Looking up at
Peter he
attempts to take it all!
Peter feels his cock growing bigger and bigger in David's mouth.
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David puts his young slim hands on Peter his ass. By holding Peter's
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hopes to control the invader. Peter takes his arms in his strong
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I started the project back in 1997 for personal use, and in November of 2002 decided to make it Open Source under the GPL (although parts have since had their license changed to the LGPL to make using our API (especially our plugin APIs) easier for all kinds of developers). After about 8 months we're getting pretty close to final releases of the project for public consumption.
So I'd been at this for 8 months, with some success, but got to the point where two things concern me:
- How do I best market my project?
- How can I raise funds to help continue the project?
That's when I discovered the Open Investment Initiative.The principle behind the Open Investment Initiative is to encourage the Open Source Community to take matters into their own hands, by getting smarter about money. If that happens to mean that programmers become part-time wheeler-dealers and happen to _like_ it better than programming, then good for them! Open source developers (or anybody else for that matter) could even band together to form investment syndicates, with the aim of gaining financial independence.
For the most part, the expectation is that several smart people willing to learn about investing, negotiating and making money get together, and succeed where they would be unable or unwilling to do anything on their own.
Hopefully, that'll help out your situation, too.
Consensual sex is boring.
It was dark in the Holland, Michigan office nestled deep within Slashdot's Geek Compound. Shifting and moaning, ESR laid sprawled over his filthy desk. Dried spittle stuck several Post-It notes to his cheek. His PC, running Linux, silently printed swap error after swap error to the screen, lighting ESR's sickly form. As he burped several times he attempted to recall the night before that had led to this stupor. Holding his head in his hands, he was interrupted by lights and doors slamming-- someone was in the office!
As Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda walked past ESR, he noticed the several empty bottles of Jägermeister and what appeared to be fecal stains on the floor and walls surrounding the recovering ESR-- nothing new. He also noticed the some semen bubbling in the cracks of ESR's chafed lips.
"Another all-night office orgy, Eric?" Rob asked coyly.
Tilting his head gingerly toward Rob and raising his eyebrows slowly, ESR spoke softly. "Oh shit. Is that what happened last night? I believe I blacked out at some point-- I can't remember anything. Who was here last night?"
"Well, CowboyNeil got there a little late last night, but he said that by the time he got there that Alan, Emad, Jamie, Michael, and Signal 11 were already pretty drunk," Rob said just a little too loudly for ESR's tender head.
Closing and opening his eyes gently, ESR muttered to himself about having not invited Signal 11. He also started sniffing the air and licking his lips. "I can smell dried feces on a dick a mile away. Just where were you last night, Robbie? You get a piece of ass last night and decide to ditch my party?"
"What's it to you? Your breath smells like semen and you don't hear me asking whose it is," Malda shot back.
ESR smiled and swiveled with a gleam in his eyes. "Ah, but you see, this is my own sperm!"
"And it must taste specfuckingtacular!" Rob shot back.
Eric interjected before Rob could go on. "Ah yes. You see, I like to add a shot of Jäger to it to give it a little kick."
"No," Rob replied with anger rising in his voice, "you fucking raging alcoholic. Your semen tastes like unchanged 15,000 mile-old motor oil. I think you may have ruptured both of your testicles and now your colon is shooting diarrhea out of your cock-hole."
"What!? You little fudge-packing piece of shit!" ESR threatened, "Ditch one of my office parties because Hemos calls up and says he's lonely, will you? I bet that's what happened. Well, guess who I'll be recommending we lay off at the next LNUX board meeting? How do you like that, Taco?"
"Whatever, Eric. You don't scare anyone except your parents," Rob said as he stormed out of ESR's office, his green plaid flannel whipping in the wake behind him. "You would be nothing without Slashdot."
ESR stammered and shook. Ever since the LNUX stock had plummeted, things were so tense around the office. Relations were falling apart between he and the Slashdot admins. Last night, Michael and Jamie had pounded each other exclusively, ignoring ESR's crooked, erect penis, and Eric had to convince Emad and Alan to restrain CowboyNeil before he could engage in homosexual intercourse with him.
With a flick of his wrist, ESR popped a dozen extra-strength Bayers down his stinking gullet and washed them down with some Jäger from the bottle he had woken up holding. Depressed, aching, and on the verge of vomiting up the entirety of last night's semen binge, ESR cried silently and went back to sleep at this desk, ignoring the pile of work that sullied the landscape of his desktop.
Clapping twice to darken his office, ESR curled into fetal position as best he could and rested, preparing to do it all over again later that night.
... Open Source funds you.
If you run out moneys then you can go live in friendlier country based on socialism or communism instead of rude arrogant capitalist system which force people to work to get what they want.
Just ask any other Americans. If you live in China the communist system give you free money all the time for doing nothing perfect for open source coding! This is why all best open source coding is from China, of course.
(I am joking of course, I am Chinese and just playing joke. Capitalism are good, and Chinese open source is suck.)
-- Dr. Fu Ling-Yu, Internal Technology Consult; Tongji University, People Republic of China.
Other ideas?
Yes, please go to work for Cakewalk (or one of their competitors) and sell the Audacity product to them for an extra $10K signing-bonus. Live and work well for Cakewalk, laughing hard at how easily RMS and his entrourage are able to brainwash young engineers into communist life-styles that rob them of their best years.
Sheesh.
Come on. Services. No maybe touring! Yeah, that's it.
Not particularly related, but with US tech jobs being sent overseas, one of the suggested replacement careers is healthcare.
Think about that. Think about the stereotypical, low-social-skill borderline autistic techie as your nurse.
(Yeah, I know, the stereotype isn't accurate.)
Anyone concerned about the future of tech careers in the US ought to send a copy of Revenge of the Nerds to their congresscritters, along with a note saying that the Nerds will be the ones changing their catheters in a few years if they don't do something to stanch the flow of jobs out of the country.
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If you want funding or just som extra cash simply follow these steps:
;)
1) set aside 1 hour a day for excersise
2) whenever you code, wear a rubber band around your dick (to make it grow)
3) spend friday afternoons in your local Red light district
Not only will you make a lot of money, but you will also get laid (somteimes even by women
ps. If your into the 'Dark Side' of gigoloing buy one of those 10$ spy-cameras and blackmail your customers for some extra cash.
ps2. 4) pray to God they come up with a cure for AIDS soon.
Open source is the art of letting other people write your bad code.
I've said this before (check my earlier postings), but basic income would solve this problem and many others. It is based on the idea that everyone has the right to do unpaid work as well as paid work, and any combination of the two, and still have a reasonable income. Look it up on citizensincome.org or wikipedia.