TW: enough funding?
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Eneko Gotzon
Sep 13, 2016, 8:33:10 PM9/13/16
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Hi all Computerized Minds :)
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Mat <matia...@gmail.com> wrote:
TW community culture rarely touches this matter. Surely the free and open source nature of the project influences this.
(Considering the real –& cruel– world) I was thinking that a well done work, besides recognition and gratitude, also deserves, if desired, monetary compensation—both for justice (giving-giving) and to help developers to satisfy all kind of material needs.
I apologize if this kind of comments disturb the moral of the community. I do not want to bother you.
* Sorry about my English; I'm learning it using my computer.
Best wishes.
Jed Carty
Sep 14, 2016, 5:38:07 AM9/14/16
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I am going to answer this for myself, I think that at least some of what I say applies to other developers but I certainly don't speak for all of them.
Unfortunately unless the income can be enough to consistently sustain someone than payment for work on tiddlywiki can't be much more than a nice gesture. For me tiddlywiki is a genuinely interesting bit of technology and I like playing with it, so that is why I do it. There have been some people who have donated to me and while I am very grateful for that, it has totaled about 3 meals at nice cafes here in Paris. How happy getting that made me is far out of proportion to the amount given, but the effect on what I can do is small. Unfortunately because I need to pay rent and eat these donations can't have a big effect on how much work I can put into tiddlywiki unless they are enough to cover all my expenses since I couldn't quit only 10% of my job. So as much as I would love to be able to get paid to work on tiddlywiki I don't think I could accept much more than people have given me because I couldn't make any sort of guarantee that I would be able to actually do more work.
For someone in my position at least there isn't really a way to pay a little bit for a little bit more development. I doubt I am ever going to say no to donations, but I don't really expect them and the amount that would be required for me to be able to put more time into tiddlywiki is probably impractical.
Unfortunately unless the income can be enough to consistently sustain someone than payment for work on tiddlywiki can't be much more than a nice gesture. For me tiddlywiki is a genuinely interesting bit of technology and I like playing with it, so that is why I do it. There have been some people who have donated to me and while I am very grateful for that, it has totaled about 3 meals at nice cafes here in Paris. How happy getting that made me is far out of proportion to the amount given, but the effect on what I can do is small. Unfortunately because I need to pay rent and eat these donations can't have a big effect on how much work I can put into tiddlywiki unless they are enough to cover all my expenses since I couldn't quit only 10% of my job. So as much as I would love to be able to get paid to work on tiddlywiki I don't think I could accept much more than people have given me because I couldn't make any sort of guarantee that I would be able to actually do more work.
For someone in my position at least there isn't really a way to pay a little bit for a little bit more development. I doubt I am ever going to say no to donations, but I don't really expect them and the amount that would be required for me to be able to put more time into tiddlywiki is probably impractical.
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