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Should you ask developers for money? And other interesting fundraising dilemnas.
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| What's the single most important thing you
| think free software projects could do to
| improve their fundraising efforts?
| Start reading emails from organizations like
| MoveOn.org and BarackObama.com and start
| emulating them and their tactics. You don't
| have to agree with them politically to see
| how they're doing what they're doing.
|
| A lot of people are going to call me crazy,
| but look: I'd argue that GNOME has as
| much if not more installations than the
| number of people that are subscribed to
| MoveOn.org's email list. And unlike
| MoveOn.org, a lot of these users are
| interacting with your software every day,
| not just when an email pops up in their
| inbox or when something happens in
| Washington.
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http://www.stormyscorner.com/2010/02/what-free-and-open-source-software-projects-can-learn-from-social-networking-and-fundraising.html
Recent:
Ubuntu 9.10 and GNOME 2.28: Advancing Past Meh
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| Many eons ago, GNOME 1.4 still lived, and it
| was good. It was extremely configurable and
| hackable. You could use either Enlightenment
| or Sawfish as the window manager, and could
| customize it to your heart's content. It was
| even friendly to homegrown GTK+ hacks. And
| then tragedy struck: the GNOME maintainers
| decided that 1.4 needed a ground-up rewrite,
| and thus GNOME 2.0 was born.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6976/1/
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