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OSS Funding through Fundable
John Pratt writes "FredCK, developer of the popular FCKEditor, recently raised $600 from supporters through Fundable to port his open source HTML editor to Safari. Fundable is a new site that lets groups of people pool money for specific purposes, like software features. Unlike generic donation dropboxes (such as PayPal buttons), if a group's targeted collection isn't reached after 2 or 4 weeks, everyone gets a complete refund." Newsforge has a piece discussing the site as well.
the FCKEditor website had the same numbers as everyone else.... Newsforge and Fundable list it as 700/600, but the website lists it at 800/500....
- AMW
Except that LinuxFund is pretty much dead. The money there is in limbo. Notice the last update to the site was almost a year ago (July 30, 2004).
- AMW
I must say though, posting a donation link on the slashdot main page is a tad bit of advertising for my taste, even if the project is good (which it appears to be)
It's just an example, you can't donate to it anymore as it closed back on 6/21.
- AMW
Found the site, it was in a Register article: PledgeBank
"No one likes working in a hamster wheel, and your shop smells of cedar shavings from here." - TaleSpinner
It actually looks like a very good model for specialist software. As someone who works for a small consultancy, I'm aware that there are many applications we would find useful that could be used by maybe twenty similar companies around the world, but would never justify the development cost for just one. And obviously no-one would buy from (or sell to) the competition. This is a possible way of developing this kind of software, though what would be ideal is some kind of trusted brokerage equivalent to the 18th century bookseller. Perhaps there's a business model for somebody there who has more spare time than I do.
Truly there is nothing new under the Sun (or under Windows for that matter).
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
Similar idea to the Public Software Fund, only we allow for different size donations and multiple bidders for the same job. I have plans to modify the system so it allows for dominant assurance contracts.
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
Guess you are out of the loop :)
Take a look at the stats Actually, I only found out about the project a few months ago.
Check out the demo its actually a really cool editor. Amazing what this guy can do with javascript.
Works great as an embedded editor for a web-based content management system.
"If they have both, tell them we use Linux. And if they have that, tell them the computers are down." -Dave Chapelle
Don't start this flamewar again. Safari's CVS is public.