What do you need for crowdfunding Django?

[olivermarchand]

Dear Django developer,

A lot of you invest their personal time for shaping Django. That's great! But at the end of the day you all have to buy bread, pay rent and need new laptops... www.100-days.net is a crowd-sourcing platform that wants to help the open source movement and asks for your input on how to best help you get all your projects properly funded. Many of you have seen the success story of  Andrew Godwin in funding schema migrations for Django. The projects was funded in an hour and 5 minutes and raised a total of 17K £ instead of 2.5K £. (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migrations-for-django) We think that this is a new "social net economy" developing and we want to help shaping it.

Here are our questions:

* Have you ever considered funding your project through a crowd
sourcing platform? Why yes, why no?

* What would it take for you to register a project?

* Which features would you love to see on 100-days for developers
(github integration, project management, specification tools, ...)?

thanks for your help,
Oliver

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Hi Oliver,

I'm sorry, but to me, this post is borderline spam. 

I can appreciate that you are enthused about your project and believe that there may be utility for the Django project, but it isn't at all clear to me what that utility *is*, or how what you're proposing is in any way different from what we're already doing (successfully) with Kickstarter. 

And, as I've told a number of other crowd funding platforms that have approached the project and the DSF, there is a lot of devil in the details when crowdsourcing and Open Source interact. The simplest version of this problem: If one person reports a bug, another person triages the ticket, a third writes a patch, a fourth writes the tests, a fifth reviews the patch, and a core team member commits, that's 6 people involved in a relatively simple bug fix. How do funds get distributed between the 6?

The two projects that Django has crowd funded have been very specifically chosen -- very clear feature sets, for features to be developed and committed by a member of the core team. This doesn't easily scale to the broader community.

Have you got a specific proposal for the Django project? If so, I'm certainly interested in hearing it - but it needs to be specific. If not, please refrain from posting to django-developers - this is a forum for discussing the development of Django, not an advertising platform.

Yours,

Russ Magee %-)