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Haiku has rare opportunity to hire fulltime developer
Haiku inc has a rare chance to hire a great developer fulltime for some work on haiku. this developer is a pretty regular contributor and generates a great amount of top notch function code.
What presents issue currently is a gap in fuding, on the order of around $6000 dollars. What I would like to ask of each of you who might be reading this is such. How hard is it to find $25 a month ? that right we only need roughly 30 people to ante up $25 a month to fund one developer fulltime. This developer has the capability to push to R1 much faster if he can work fulltime on the system.
I don't want to out this developer, but the question remains, who here can swing $25 a month US dollars for 6 months. I certainly can spare a case of beer a month. If more can be raised potentially, more contracts could be added to give haiku the final push to feature completion and bug resolution.
GSOC will Help Haiku inc with some of this funding shortgap. But still there is more to be allocated. this developer will give haiku fulltime work for 6 months.
Please give this some consideration. It is a real opportunity to advance Haiku to a level of features and bug fixs that Haiku has not had in sometime. I would also ask you to consider any grant or other funding opportunitys that may exist, via other grants. Please write to hardware manufacturers, Software providers, Pc makers such as Dell,HP etc.
With a little bit of salesmenship and more funding Haiku could catch up by leaps and bounds, and with A3 being such a massively improved release Beta1 and Rlease1 are just around the corner. Simply put a funding drive and push would go a long way to help with this mission.
So I ask you to consider this, $25 a month, $5 a month $100 a month, Pocket change etc. Its time to open those wallets and give back to Haiku and the developer team what they give to us in spare time etc.
Here is a chance to prove that opensource can work and grow. Lets make this happen. Haiku is the most promising opensource OS in the market, it just needs more maturity to start attracting the big money corporate sponsors.
Thank you for your time
Sean
Ps I am now setup to donate $25 a month. you can do it to !!!!!
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I think thats in discussion right now.
On Haiku Inc list:
http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-inc/Requesting-Feedback-Longer-term-contracts
The developer would be Michael Lotz who is known for his APIC, USB work but has also done other work on Haiku. Very good programmer so hopefully Haiku will run a Code Drive to get many to boost their donations.
Haiku used to sell the Alpha CDs for $20 and I heard people were saying too costly. Now they are asking for $10. I thought $20 was fair price to sell CD at and not sure why people were complaining. I guess there are those that want everything for free. =(
Official Alpha 3 CD
http://www.haiku-inc.org/order-disc.html
I actually want to buy at least 1 CD but looking to move in month (or two) and have to hold off for now. I think lots of great work went into making Alpha 3!!!
Haiku Store
http://www.cafepress.ca/haiku_os
Hopefully others will decide to give min of $20 or higher too.
Later,
Can you commit to donate $5 a month ?
$5, $10, $15 or $20 is not an issue for me but monthly donating does not work. ie, only few do it. This has been tried in the past and only 5 to 10 people were doing it for couple of months (6-8?) before it fizzled out. If you get about 30 people to donate min $10/month then I could jump in too otherwise probably not.
Actually the better way to get money to Haiku is with:
a] Code Drive - that way many people donate, b] selling CDs or merchandise and c] finding corporate or rich sponsors to make donations.
Look at how Ubuntu became the #1 Linux distro. There are so many companies or individuals that make millions or billions and should try to get them on-board with Haiku than trying to earn a couple of $ from monthly donations.
Apache donations is below just for an idea of what they get.
Different donor levels:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html
Corporate entities that donated to Apache:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html
Notice the Platinum is $100K/year.
It can work, it'll just take a bit of peer pressure, Currently I don't see any other oppurtunitys to get a developer of this quality fulltime for 6 months. Who knows many might donate if they start seeing real forward progress.
I agree on large donors, I am looking into places to connect with monetary sources.
Its just going to take time and there are lots of doors to knock on.
It's better to have 100 people donating 20 euro every month, then having 10 people donating 200 euro every month, even the total amount is the same.
We must make the impression of having a stable income.
I am ok with that, and I agree, without alot of people contributing the income simply won't be there to support a developer fulltime.
This has become a reality. I have a funding idea I am going to send up the developer list and link back here.
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