Wine fundraising idea

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Fri May 1 19:55:50 CDT 2009


Austin English wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I was reading through a GSoC thread on how people are spending their
> coding money. Someone posted that they thought people should donate to
> miro, the internet HDTV player. They've got a pretty neat donation
> scheme, where people can 'adopt' a line of code, and get updates on
> it, etc. Pretty neat:
> https://www.getmiro.com/adopt/
> 
> Just food for thought, for those of y'all wanting to add $ to the
> WineHQ coffers, for WineConf, or what not (*cough* test/compile farm
> *cough*).
> 

This is functionally similar to asking for people to become members of 
some sort of foundation (eg monthly or annual contribution).  It's a 
funding model that works, which is why they do it for public radio.

I think there's real potential here.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie



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