Re: Marketplace for Django apps

[Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]]

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It's not the cost that I'm concerned with, it's the community motivation that worries me.

If we have a paid app store, we will not only end up with every tom/dick/harry submitting crappy apps (just like every other store), but it also changes the motivation of the community to be commercially driven, rather than kudos.

Personally, I feel something like this would become the cancer of our community, and should be avoided - especially since the Django contributors themselves give so much for free and ask so little in return.

At the same time, there is nothing stopping you from creating your own store and selling the modules yourself - if you really wanted to.

Cal

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Slava Kravchenko <slavk...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

our web development agency uses Django basically for all stuff we are doing. We love it, we love Django community and open-source. We even have some open-sourced apps.

We also have some apps, which can't be open-sourced now for some reason, but we're interested in selling them. We know that there are some other agencies that have such apps.

What I want to discuss is a "Django Marketplace" thing, like WordPress Marketplace or Magento Connect. A place, where developers will be able to sell apps to other developers or complete projects to end-users.

About a year ago, Jacob-Kaplan Moss wrote a post on this topic in his blog: http://jacobian.org/writing/paid-django-apps/ . It has some negative and some positive comments about selling Django apps.

I want to ask you again, what you think about such service? Would you buy or sell apps (or paid support) out there and why?

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[jo...@geiregat.org]

>
> I want to ask you again, what you think about such service? Would you
> buy or sell apps (or paid support) out there and why?
>

If the apps are more then good enough and would spare companies time
and there are no better or equal opensource alternatives,
then yes I do believe some people might be willing to buy apps in such
a market place. For example there is no real outstanding e-commerce
application for django.

[Jorge Vargas]

I agree with Jonas here. having a place were you have get apps to solve hard problems no one has done right (ecommerce is a very good example) is a plus.

As for it being "cancer" and bad I don't agree there is a market for everything. And that will bring more people in which in the end is what everyone wants.

I do agree that it should be clear that said store will be managed by a third party and not Django itself.

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[Kurtis Mullins]

How about a compromise; just an easier way to donate to Django and Django Application developers? It would encourage sharing high quality projects and hopefully make it worth our time (financially, not just because we love and support libre software) to do so. For that matter, there's all sorts of ways to make money around free software (laid out by RMS among others) such as Paid Support, selling printed documentation, etc...

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[Thomas Orozco]

You could always use https://www.gittip.com/ to that end,

Basically, it allows you to tip developers that are on github

For instance, you could tip django devs at: https://www.gittip.com/on/github/django/

You can see that: https://www.gittip.com/aaugustin/ or https://www.gittip.com/alex/, among other django devs, opted into gittip,

Cheers,

2012/9/11 Kurtis Mullins <kurtis....@gmail.com>

[Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]]

OP - you could always just set a marketplace up, try and get a few big names to jump in with you, and see if people follow - if anything it'd make for a cool little lunch time project for you! :)