Re: [tlug] kickstarter for open source...

[Ulrike Schmidt <ulrike@example.com>]

Am 11.06.13 08:53, schrieb Curt Sampson:
> On 2013-06-06 18:06 +0900 (Thu), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
> >   Crowdfunding works because it's basically the same as leaving your
> > pennies in the UNICEF box at the cash register at 7-11.
> I've funded over 20 kickstarter projects with amounts ranging from $5 to
> $1000. I'm guessing that my median funding amount is about $30, though
> I don't have the data to back this up. (Kickstarter doesn't provide a
> summary, and I'm too lazy to go through each project and total up the
> amounts I've pledged.) I'm quite certain that in the majority of cases
> the amount I pledge is considerably more than what I (and I think most
> people) would consider "spare change."
I also think the comparison with spare change is not quite correct. It is not donating, it is more like buying a T-Shirt, a video, some piece of software, a 3D scanner, fame, whatever.

> The jury's still out, of course, and will be for quite a few years yet.
> But Kickstarter and similar systems seem to work quite well for certain
> segments of the software market. These are not open source segments,
> however, and I'm not seeing any real indication that it would stretch to
> that.
What about diaspora? 
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mbs348/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr
It is open source and they have been quite successful regarding the 
funding part.

Maybe todays crowdfunding platforms are simple enough for the main user. 
When googling for SourceXchange I came across this post mortem: 
http://sohodojo.com/techsig/sxc24-postmortem.html. It seems to have been 
much more complex.