On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Robert Klemme <shortcutter / googlemail.com> wrote: > On 20.12.2009 02:28, Eleanor McHugh wrote: > >> Also as things stand I share many of the problems you had at the >> outset: aside from the occasional argument here on Ruby-Talk and some >> geeky conference presentations I don't have a particularly high >> community profile and as I've not been involved in open source before >> I don't even have a public repository of old code that people can >> check to decide if my time's a good investment. > > Although I can't remember having seen any code of yours I definitively > appreciate your postings here. ¨Βουγοννυξιτπςοζιμνιηθβε βεττες τθαξ > you believe. :-) Raising money on your own for software projects, open source or not, is hard, particularly when the audience is programmers. My buddy Kent Beck has a rather impressive community profile amongst the Java and Smalltalk communities couldn't seem to make his work on jUnit max pay off. In my own case, I've been working on ri_cal http://github.com/rubyredrick/ri_cal in my (sometimes too much) free time for a year now, gotten very good feedback on it, but so far the pledgie campaign http://pledgie.com/campaigns/4360 has yielded just $100, not much for hundreds if not thousands of hours of work. If you want to be paid to work on open source, the best bet seems to be to find an employer who's willing to donate all or some of your time to open source contributions. The usual wages for doing it yourself seem to be enhanced reputation, and hopefully better chances of finding work via consulting or as a resume enhancer for finding more traditional employment. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale