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Finding Sponsors for an Open Source Project?

Posted by Cliff on from the money-money-money-moo-ney dept.

vertigo72 asks: "What's the best way to find sponsors for an open source project? Is there some people or foundations that give grants for the development of free software? We develop an open source (GPL) box office software: phpMyTicket. At our knowledge at the moment this is the only open source software of this kind. The program is in advanced beta stage and was already used in production environment by us and by other people. The program is rather complex and big: we support online ticket shop, box office with thermal printer and control at doors with barcode scanner. Smarty, PDF and email template engines are used. Paypal and some other gateways are supported. Now we want to continue and to add more professional features, but alas this requires more funding." "We tried to finance our development ourselves, but that didn't work. We tried support, installation and customization, and also a commercial license, but there are just not enough requests. We also had few donations (to the tune of around $50) via Sourceforge. Now, we searching for alternative solutions like sponsoring. Is there someone out there who can help us to keep the software free?"

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  1. We really don't care for php applications by Cyn+Dragon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    PHP isn't a very good langauge to write large scale applications in specifically for what you are writing. Maybe if it were written in Python, or perhaps C++. I don't hold PHP applications in high reguard because people program in the langauge without thinking.(99.9% of projects) GPLed applications are nice, because they are Free( *grin* ), but using a language which is slow and ill used means bad projects. Also, the PHP team is very foolish. I'm suprised they included the crap for code nuSOAP as a library. They obviously haven't programed with nuSOAP and don't know what they are doing. I used to program in PHP for a while, and really disliked it after using Python and Zope. Then I used Ruby to add to my learned langauges. C++ is great on the client side as well. Overall, php was hard to turn back to because of the design of php. Now I earn money by converting php apps to Python. Great for a brain strain. :/