Yes, the Qt bounty is "done" (on the grounds that I promised to make updates to it as soon as stuff like Gallium becomes available). So the featured donations should be changed.
Well, The Monthly Featured Donations thing died a death because people lost interest in it.
Apologies for the QT Donations thing I will ask the web masters to remove it.
EDIT:
I would welcome any feeback as to what it should be replaced with.
Alternatively - Should we bring back the monthly featured donations again? even if instead of being monthly, say bi-monthly or quarterly. In these austure times, is there the appetite for donations?
Thoughts welcome please
Mikey C
No cause is lost if there is but one fool left to fight for it.
Diego Cassoran currently have a machine from Amigabounty on loan. He need his own OS4 capable HW so please support his bounty to help him afford it (and free the loaner machine for other another developer). It would be good to see the avcodec.library featured instead of Qt, asap.
If i could, i would vote for one of the FD's being "Developer Machines to loan" and fixed (no change at all, just let it stay there, dev machines are most important i'd say) Also, Troels, it would be nice if the candidates for a dev machine could be listed somewhere with a little breakdown on what they plan to do with it...you know? A little self-advertising doesn't hurt
And i would be happy with a quarterly or even half-year change of the other.
Too bad amigans don't get as much attention as aw. Monetary times are also hard so i don't think a monthly change would do any good anyway, people (like me) need to think some months about giving away hard earned money
Anyway, i think it is a great idea to have a shortcut through FD's only i would place it better, lets say between "Sections" and "Who's Online". The top right space is easily missed
What about making a poll about the featured donation ? (Oh no another poll.... )
- people would be kept uptodate about ongoing projects... - even people who donnot want to donate, could somehow participate (Sure, the donators should decide whicht project is important, on the other hand we could judge wether donators opion is d'accor with every ones elses opinion)
I think you're wrong. Important and promising projects should be promoted more often and more vigorously, to encourage people's donations. I've noticed myself behaving like that:
- when there's a cool, important bounty project announced, I always make a donation of 20-50 EUR; - if a project update is announced and some visible progress is shown, I usually donate again, albeit a smaller sum; - if the project remains silent, I tend to forget all about it and donate nothing.
@all If QT bounty are done, and no more money accept to, maybe we can replace it on the dopus magellan bounty ? It was establisheed today, and we need to raise 5600USD (currently 3900, as 1700 are in already), and as it will give us sources which can be ported to all the amiga and alike oses (i in interst to tryint to port it to os4 when time will come), maybe it will worth to put it here ?
There is a link And image can be used just one that:
@all + admins If there is no interst about helping to collect bounty for dopus5, what about let's say, promote Andy's SketchBlock ? One of the perspective, native, logical, fast and 100% necessary native os4 app. That of course not bounty, but donations, but that does not matter much in end, as the result is to bring more motivation to author.
While i never like PayPal i recently make an account only to be able to donate to dopus and other stuff. Will find it good when the FD will updated and changed frequently. More publicity for people like me who have an terrible memory and forget about things :)
Isn't it a question of promoting what we can when we can? There's no real cost associated here and it benefits us all. Those with lack of interest can always go jump in a lake. Or just, you know, ignore it.
Thanks, it's still too cold for the lake atm, so I'll choose to ignore any bounty for Magellan. The SketchBlock bounty is a good idea, although I already donated some bucks to Andy - nevertheless it would be nice to have this project under the AmigaBounty banner as well.
I'd like to nominate Cinnamon Writer for a spot on the "featured donations" roster. We just got another update; it's donationware; and, a good docx-compatible word processor is well worth having.
Also Alexandre needs some support on wxwidgets - maybe he can give some status update?
I didn't work ion wxwidgets for a while now. My A1XE breakage really give a halt to this project (which was on track back then), after that real-life took over and each time I tried to resume something else came to prevent me to go much deeper. The good news is that I hold out all my compiling sources to billt just over a month or two ago. He didn't contacted me again yet about it, but if he's motivated enough.
I'm sad to say that for multiple reasons, the first is because I'm confessing a failure (and a failure is never easy to take, at least not for me), the second, and maybe the one that has more importance for me, is that I feel guilty toward each of you that donated to this bounty because due to my failure I have the feeling to have cheated you, or even worst to have ripped your money. Please be sure I'm sorry about that, but be assured that in the future I'll stay away of any bounty as in the Amiga I'm looking for the fun, not the money, and apparently money can't motivate me more than I would be with a fun project.
Also Alexandre needs some support on wxwidgets - maybe he can give some status update?
I didn't work ion wxwidgets for a while now. My A1XE breakage really give a halt to this project (which was on track back then), after that real-life took over and each time I tried to resume something else came to prevent me to go much deeper. The good news is that I hold out all my compiling sources to billt just over a month or two ago. He didn't contacted me again yet about it, but if he's motivated enough.
I'm sorry to hear this, but I thought that it might happen after you mentioned your lack of experience with AmigaOS' GUI system and had trouble finding people to help out. Still, the work that you have done can be built on by others.
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I'm sad to say that for multiple reasons, the first is because I'm confessing a failure (and a failure is never easy to take, at least not for me), the second, and maybe the one that has more importance for me, is that I feel guilty toward each of you that donated to this bounty because due to my failure I have the feeling to have cheated you, or even worst to have ripped your money. Please be sure I'm sorry about that, but be assured that in the future I'll stay away of any bounty as in the Amiga I'm looking for the fun, not the money, and apparently money can't motivate me more than I would be with a fun project.
Don't feel bad about the donated money. I donated and don't feel ripped off at all. It's not like you ran off with it. Plus, the work that you have done can be built on. The money is still there in the bounty, ready for whoever decides to pick up from where you left off. It may still help get the port finished; we just need someone with the right skill-set to volunteer.
I wish you all the best with whatever you make your next project.
Hans wrote: I'd like to nominate Cinnamon Writer for a spot on the "featured donations" roster.
IMHO Cinnamon Writer is an important project that is well worth supporting through donations. The program has so far materialized quite well; the author seems to be dedicated and never demanded money in exchange for a pipe-dream. He does deliver.
What you think about putting what you have at some svn/google page, so anyone can try to finish what you start (money can be easyly splitted beetwen other bounties, or kind of ?). Because if you send it to another coder, it also can stack in his hands for a while, while when it opensourced, everyone can contribute.
And imho we need also now cleary point out in the bounty, something like "bounty can be reassigned again, the part of code which done by previous author can be found here". Then money can stay in the bounty (some part of them of course should be send to you , to be fair, as you already do half of work as i understand ?), and new coder who will take a risk to finish work, will get a bonus :)
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