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[Luis Carvajal <gralfca@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is the  proposal to organize the roadmap and chose some tasks for hiring
and pay developers using money coming from donations specifically for those
tasks?

It doesn't seem to be a bad idea.

Tasks costs could be estimated and they should begin once donations cover
those costs.


2012/2/17 Fabio Varesano <fabio.varesano@xxxxxxxxx>

>
>  To summarize, we are not short on ideas.  I think sometimes new users
>> come into use of a
>> project and just assume that the reason a feature is not there is because
>> nobody has
>> thought of it.  However, more often than not, it is a lack of "qualified
>> developer
>> man-hours", which typically are not free.  And when they do become
>> available, need to be
>> thought of as financial contributions in and of themselves, even no money
>> has changed hands.
>>
>
> If money is the problem for not having qualified developers hours, why
> don't you developers ask users to financially contribute for a feature?
>
> You decide one of the most critical/appealing missing feature, then you
> decide how much money implementing that would take (men hours * hourly
> rate) and then ask the community to donate for that. There are webapps that
> also helps you collecting the money, eg http://www.chipin.com/
>
> I've seen this working in many other free software projects, I don't see
> why it couldn't work with KiCad.
>
> I'd surely would donate towards push routing and distributed databases..
>
> FV
>
>
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Luis