ReactOS fundraising campaign

[Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo]

Hello,

I can see donations have slowed down too much.... so, reaching 30,000 €
goal seems ... quite impossible at the short-term...

So, i wanted to ask... what about hiring devs for months? i know its a
short period of time, but i feel ReactOS needs it ( and them, also,
speaking about devs) asap :)

[Aleksey Bragin]

From the bright side, it's not that simple to raise almost 5k euros 
within a few weeks.

What's important is that there is absolutely no need to wait till 
magical figure of 30k to start hiring devs for contracts. We are already 
working on preparing devs contracts and as soon as we settle things down 
and agree on specific contract/developer tasks we proceed and implement 
them.

Yes, ReactOS needs it indeed! :)

WBR,
Aleksey.

On 06.06.2012 11:47, Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can see donations have slowed down too much.... so, reaching 30,000 
> € goal seems ... quite impossible at the short-term...
>
> So, i wanted to ask... what about hiring devs for months? i know its a 
> short period of time, but i feel ReactOS needs it ( and them, also, 
> speaking about devs) asap :)

[Andrew Faulds]

Radical idea: Start a kickstarter to "bring ReactOS into beta", needing a
certain amount. That could get us a lot more publicity and money.
On Jun 6, 2012 10:23 AM, "Aleksey Bragin" [e-mail] wrote:
> From the bright side, it's not that simple to raise almost 5k euros within
> a few weeks.
>
> What's important is that there is absolutely no need to wait till magical
> figure of 30k to start hiring devs for contracts. We are already working on
> preparing devs contracts and as soon as we settle things down and agree on
> specific contract/developer tasks we proceed and implement them.
>
> Yes, ReactOS needs it indeed! :)
>
> WBR,
> Aleksey.
>
> On 06.06.2012 11:47, Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I can see donations have slowed down too much.... so, reaching 30,000 €
> > goal seems ... quite impossible at the short-term...
> >
> > So, i wanted to ask... what about hiring devs for months? i know its a
> > short period of time, but i feel ReactOS needs it ( and them, also,
> > speaking about devs) asap :)
>
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[Aleksey Bragin]

Yes, I've got about 20 emails suggesting Kickstarter campaign, not to 
count requests via IRC.
So, it's indeed a good chance, I'll discuss it with our team, however I 
wanted to save it for a better breakthrough, after we've gained 
experience with existing donations and showed people how good it works 
in reality, not just promises.

WBR,
Aleksey.

On 06.06.2012 15:28, Andrew Faulds wrote:
> Radical idea: Start a kickstarter to "bring ReactOS into beta", 
> needing a certain amount. That could get us a lot more publicity and 
> money.
>
> On Jun 6, 2012 10:23 AM, "Aleksey Bragin" <[e-mail] 
> mailto:[e-mail]> wrote:
> From the bright side, it's not that simple to raise almost 5k
> euros within a few weeks.
>
> What's important is that there is absolutely no need to wait till
> magical figure of 30k to start hiring devs for contracts. We are
> already working on preparing devs contracts and as soon as we
> settle things down and agree on specific contract/developer tasks
> we proceed and implement them.
>
> Yes, ReactOS needs it indeed! :)
>
> WBR,
> Aleksey.
>
>
> On 06.06.2012 11:47, Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I can see donations have slowed down too much.... so, reaching
>     30,000 EUR goal seems ... quite impossible at the short-term...
>
>     So, i wanted to ask... what about hiring devs for months? i
>     know its a short period of time, but i feel ReactOS needs it (
>     and them, also, speaking about devs) asap :)

[Bernd Blaauw]

Op 6-6-2012 14:25, Aleksey Bragin schreef:
> So, it's indeed a good chance, I'll discuss it with our team, however I
> wanted to save it for a better breakthrough, after we've gained
> experience with existing donations and showed people how good it works
> in reality, not just promises.

Could work, with something like:
* donate nn Euro and get a pressed ReactOS CD
* donate nn+ Euro and get a USB Flash Drive containing ReactOS
* donate nnn+ Euro and get a Raspberry Pi as dedicated ReactOS machine, 
running some bare Linux and ROS in QEMU 1.1 ?

with best regards,

Bernd Blaauw

[Andrew Faulds]

Some people are vain, you should add a "have name in credits" option.

Also an opportunity to meet developers might interest somebody, perhaps.

On 6 June 2012 17:56, Bernd Blaauw [e-mail] wrote:
> Op 6-6-2012 14:25, Aleksey Bragin schreef:
> > So, it's indeed a good chance, I'll discuss it with our team, however I
> > wanted to save it for a better breakthrough, after we've gained
> > experience with existing donations and showed people how good it works
> > in reality, not just promises.
>
> Could work, with something like:
> donate nn Euro and get a pressed ReactOS CD
> donate nn+ Euro and get a USB Flash Drive containing ReactOS
> donate nnn+ Euro and get a Raspberry Pi as dedicated ReactOS machine,
>
> running some bare Linux and ROS in QEMU 1.1 ?
>
> with best regards,
>
> Bernd Blaauw
>
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