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

[Stig Nørgaard Færch]

Ries van Twisk skrev:
> 
> On Sep 3, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Stig Nørgaard Færch wrote:
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>> Ries van Twisk skrev:
>>>
>>> On Sep 3, 2009, at 2:17 AM, Stig Nørgaard Færch wrote:
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>>>> <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...

Lets say that some feature costs 5000€ to implement. That might be a too 
heavy cost for the customer. That doesn't mean that it isn't a valuable 
feature and a needed feature.So the TYPO3 company now has to decide if 
it itself should invest time/money in the project. But I still haven't 
seen any company who has made THE gallery extension (for example). That 
doesn't mean that the need isn't there - it just means that noone is 
coordinating efforts/money.
If that feature only had to cost 500€ for the customer, then it had been 
developed. And I think that could be achieved through the use of donations.

/Stig