[linux-audio-user] donations or sponsoring?

[oktyabr]

Interesting idea!

For a couple of years I was a "subscriber" to Transgaming's WineX.  $5 a 
month bought me a number of votes, three a month if I remember right, 
that could be spent on forwarding any of a number of feature requests or 
improvements also in part nominated by the subscribers.  You could spend 
all the votes on one thing or spread them around a bit and the vote 
total basically set the developer(s) priority list for the month.

I'm sure they still had internal coding to do... the boring behind the 
scenes stuff most users take for granted... but it kept me hooked for 
quite awhile.  On a more affordable schedule, like the $1/1euro a month 
that you are suggesting, even broke users like me could afford to help 
support several projects.

It's an excellent idea for sure.  I also like the "bounty" idea.  I've 
seen this pop up in practice spontaneously before!  A very busy 
community and a user wants a new feature *NOW* and is willing to pay for 
it to help get it done quicker.  Since all the good projects are open 
source that means even if the developer(s) aren't interested in 
accepting the bounty a freelance hacker could.  I don't think that is as 
easy to put together as a paypal based subscription but it might be.

Got me thinking!  Nice work on the very quick bug fix too, btw.

- Jon Hoskins

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