[TYPO3-dev] Money money... and a donation project

[Ries van Twisk]

On Sep 3, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Stig Nørgaard Færch wrote:

> Ries van Twisk skrev:
>>
>> On Sep 3, 2009, at 2:17 AM, Stig Nørgaard Færch wrote:
>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Collecting the money:
>>> The next barrier is to actual collect the money. Let's say the  
>>> project
>>> need 3000€. I wouldn't want to make a donation of 100€ unless I  
>>> was sure
>>> that money actually would be used for this project. What if the goal
>>> amount isn't met? Okay - so people can pledge? This would never work
>>> with small donation amounts for such a project.
>>>
>>> So this project might never be realized.
>>
>> If the project was never realized it was never needed by the person  
>> who
>> want's to implement this feature.
>
> It's true that many features are not "needed", but they are  
> nevertheless
> often really nice-to-have.
>
> And it might be true for Marios cool "google-calendar like frontend"
> project as well - he might not really need it. But it would be a
> valuable and nice-to-have feature.



If it's valuable to have (this is arguable) then somebody that needed it
would implement it. Really, I have also done crazy things with the
help of TYPO3 that could not be found in TER, client needed it,
so it got implemented...


Ries