Haiku and raising money?

[Jason McArdle]

I know that Haiku wants donations. Is the HaikuOS on kickstarter?

That may be a way to get a good deal of money :)

[Sean Collins]

Post by Jason McArdle
I know that Haiku wants donations. Is the HaikuOS on kickstarter?
That may be a way to get a good deal of money :)

I have read allot of ideas bout kickstarter, if one were to get a
kickstarter project going, the goals would need to be clearly defined
and the cost for the development work to be done, would also need to be
very clear.

Say the goal of

Haiku Release 1

theres maybe a hand ful of folks that could estimate this cost, if I had
to ballpark it, with the current developers, I'd estimate roughly
500,000 us dollars to make the push for r1, and that might not be enough.

[Humdinger]

Hi Jason!

Post by Jason McArdle
I know that Haiku wants donations. Is the HaikuOS on kickstarter?
That may be a way to get a good deal of money :)

There have been a few discussions about kickstarter on the website's
forum. You may want to have a look what other users have to say on that
topic.

I think our main problem is the shortage of capable developers in the
project, or better, their lack of time for such work. Other kickstarter
projects, like for a short movie or a book, have all that's needed
ready on hand or easily recrutable. All they lack is money. Haiku OTOH
has a bit of money through donations, but lacks the devs to put it to
work. Or actually, the devs find just seldom enough time, so the donated
money suffices... :)

Would the situation change if suddenly there were 100.000 EUR thru
kickstarter?
Maybe. But would people spend this amount of money if we can only hope
to find the necessary devs for the project? Can anyone make such an
enticing kickstarter page that people donate for an open source OS and
who not already know about Haiku and donate at Haiku Inc.?

Maybe we could push Ingo's and Oliver's contracting projects [1] onto
kickstarter and see how it fares. OTOH, asking for money for a project
that is already financed and planned to be executed doesn't feel to be
a legitimate kickstarter project...

Regards,
Humdinger

[1] http://www.haiku-os.org/news/2012-08-20_two_contractors_each_two_months

--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-
Deutsche Haiku News - Haiku Gazette
http://haiku-gazette.blogspot.com

[Sean Collins]

Post by Humdinger
Maybe we could push Ingo's and Oliver's contracting projects [1] onto
kickstarter and see how it fares. OTOH, asking for money for a project
that is already financed and planned to be executed doesn't feel to be
a legitimate kickstarter project...
Regards,
Humdinger
[1] http://www.haiku-os.org/news/2012-08-20_two_contractors_each_two_months
--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-
Deutsche Haiku News - Haiku Gazette
http://haiku-gazette.blogspot.com

While these projects are financed, having acess to a substantially
larger amount of funding would allow for a competitive pay rate for a
long period of time.

Sean

[Jerry Babione]

Post by Sean Collins

Post by Humdinger
Maybe we could push Ingo's and Oliver's contracting projects [1] onto
kickstarter and see how it fares. OTOH, asking for money for a project that
is already financed and planned to be executed doesn't feel to be a
legitimate kickstarter project...
Regards,
Humdinger
[1] http://www.haiku-os.org/news/**2012-08-20_two_contractors_**
each_two_months<http://www.haiku-os.org/news/2012-08-20_two_contractors_each_two_months>
--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=**--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-
Deutsche Haiku News - Haiku Gazette
http://haiku-gazette.blogspot.**com<http://haiku-gazette.blogspot.com>

While these projects are financed, having acess to a substantially
larger amount of funding would allow for a competitive pay rate for a long
period of time.
Sean

Sean,

I've had three eye surgeries in the past 8 months. As much as I'd like to
be of service, to the Haiku cause, I'm not able to maintain the software
I've out with my clients. I'm sorry.

The killer is I've still got 20 or the 60 BeOS Pro installations her in
Oklahoma to support. I've lost 35 to Xubunto, Ubunto, and Red Hat in the
last 8 months and 15 to Windows.

That's what happens when you start getting old and falling apart.

[Sean Collins]

Post by Jerry Babione
Sean,
I've had three eye surgeries in the past 8 months. As much as I'd like
to be of service, to the Haiku cause, I'm not able to maintain the
software I've out with my clients. I'm sorry.
The killer is I've still got 20 or the 60 BeOS Pro installations her
in Oklahoma to support. I've lost 35 to Xubunto, Ubunto, and Red Hat
in the last 8 months and 15 to Windows.
That's what happens when you start getting old and falling apart.
--
Jerry Babione
Founder-Just Plain Folks Org. Inc.

Sorry to hear about your eye surgery, my wife has had several for
everything from cataracts to bleeding in her eyes from diabetes, take
care of yourself. Haiku isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Sean