[wx-dev] new promotion of wxWidgets

[Riccardo Cohen]

You know these days funding is often managed as a commercial activity. 
And it would be fair to do it since our community do its business with 
wxWidgets.
If you ask for donation, you get donation. If you do it on regular 
basis, you get a regular donation. And if finally some big companies 
invest in wxWidgets, we will not bother everybody with frequent call for 
donation.

On the new music site http://www.reshape-music.com/ customer can even 
choose the price of the product they buy, and it seems that they often 
choose a price higher than the recommendation. It should work for a 
professionnal tool no ?

Stefan Csomor wrote:
> Hi Riccardo
>> I've understood that you have a lot of wonderful projects (including 
>> version 3, end of wxcocoa/64bits, the next generation...) But 
>> unfortunately to do that you need time and money. I don't see many 
>> donations (let me know if I'm wrong). In the same time I'm not expert 
>> enough to help you.
>>
>> One thing however : big donations can only come from either big 
>> companies, or big number of small company. While wxWidgets would 
>> greatly benefit from these donations, I have never been asked for. And 
>> like many others, I've never asked my boss to donate. Human being is 
>> like that.
>>
>> So my idea is very simple. I think that if we can gather about 15000 
>> euros from all wx users, we can start a world marketing/press action 
>> to have more users, in particular in big companies, to which we could 
>> ask bigger donations and finally pay you to keep wxWidgets at the top.
> thank you very much for spending your time on these thoughts! It is a 
> difficult issue and I know that I'm not followed by many others on my 
> opinion on these things: My personal opinion is that occasional 
> donations (or short term projects) - while they are very much 
> appreciated - will not be enough for the longer term future of such a 
> big project, and neither will mere promotions - we'd either need a solid 
> funding (not just one time donations) by a least one bigger company, or 
> have a dual licensing scheme, or strip down the code size.
> 
> just my 0.02€ (stronger value now ;-)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
> 
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Très cordialement,

Riccardo Cohen
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