[Development] Changes to Qt offering

NIkolai Marchenko enmarantispam at gmail.com
Wed Jan 29 23:25:31 CET 2020


I personally want a goal oriented fundraiser model. Like "revamp
qtwidgets", "do a round of serious bugfixes in qml" etc

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 1:23 AM Matthew Woehlke <mwoehlke.floss at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 29/01/2020 17.13, Konstantin Shegunov wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:55 PM Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> >> We need more open-source-meets-kickstarter...
> >
> > ehm, Patreon?
>
> Aside from issues with Patreon's reputation, there's a reason I wrote
> "kickstarter". I can't think of any instance where I've seen tangible
> rewards for supporting *an open source project* via Patreon. Conversely,
> Kickstarter offers *specific* rewards of the payee's choice, and often
> involves some sort of public "thank you" (which I don't think I've
> *ever* seen with Patreon).
>
> Besides, I was thinking more along the lines of something that could
> integrate with other OSS tools (e.g. GitHub).
>
> I want a "proud sponsors" page. I want to be able to offer bounties for
> specific bugs or feature requests. (IOW, read the rest of my previous
> message that you didn't quote.)
>
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> Matthew
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