Funding GnuCash Development

[Richard Schilling]

The company I started last March is in fact pursuing this kind of 
work.  With every project we budget open-source work, and in fact only 
use open-source products as a rule unless required by the client 
otherwise.  I'm just looking for an excuse to budget time toward 
GnuCash. . . .

My attitude is "you point I'll go".  We currently have two graphic 
designers and two programmers (one of them me), and an apprentice.

Happy to help reign in some work, because the more we do the more we 
can contribute to the code base.  As a rule existing coders on GnuCash 
would get first offers for any work that comes up which we could not do 
ourselves.  In fact having the "core-team" available is a big selling 
point.



Richard Schilling, MBA
Lake Stevens, WA 98258
www.rsmba.biz


On 2003.08.29 10:27 Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:17:53AM -0400,
> tripp+gnucash-devel at perspex.com was heard to remark:
> > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> >
> > > Havoc is paid work on Gnome full-time.  I am not.
> > 	[...]
> > > Gnucash has zero full-time, paid developers.
> >
> > What would it take to make this otherwise? I mean, just brainstorm
> > outloud, because maybe someone's out there in a position to make it
> happen
> > (individually or collectively).
> 
> I've heard statements to the effect that some petroleum/gas companies
> are disatisfied with thier current accounting setup, and would be
> interested in funding some open source development to fix this.
> But I couldn't run this idea down myself.
> 
> I found this idea intriguing, because oil revenues, like music
> industry
> revenues are very tangled: well owners each get some, so do the
> operators, so does the pipeline, so does the refinery, and its a
> complex multi-way split with loops and feedback and limits & etc. .
> In the music industry, there's also many different types and kinds
> of royalties flowing every which way.  So I think there's some
> interesting peer-to-peer, digital-signature, contracts-based
> accounting
> technology that can be developed.  Basically, a transaction is not
> recorded on the books until all of the involved parties have reviewed
> it and affixed thier digital signature to it.  It bears superficial
> similarity to digital cash, which I'd like to work on.
> 
> Note also: you can also solve the double-spending problem of anonymous
> digital cash by broadcasting transactions over a peer-to-peer network.
> Double-spending is one of the major technical barriers to digital
> cash.
> (that and a patent portfolio that is sitting idle, waiting to bite
> someone).
> 
> OK, so I wandered off-topic. I'd love to see corporate sponsorship
> for gnucash development, but I don't know how to raise awareness.
> Send press-releases to CFO magazine?
> 
> I suspect that a dedicated individual could build a self-sustaining
> business providing support to small-business gnucash users.
> For example, charging $500 of $1000 for x amount of support.
> But much as I'd like to do this, I'm not sure I'd be able to do this
> myself. I've had my fill of small, struggling businesses for a while.
> 
> The real problem with any of these kinds of funding ideas is that
> they require someone with an entreprenurial spirit and salesmanship
> abilities, willing to make calls, shake hands, and put a deal
> together.
> And until there's a deal, you're living in a suitcase in the backseat
> of your car. (speaking either metaphorcally, or in actuality). Most
> everybody on these mailing lists just don't have that kind of talent.
> 
> 
> --linas
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