I think he ran away.vicmarcal wrote:i am on it.I am on it.
Gimme 12 hours more.
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I think he ran away.vicmarcal wrote:i am on it.I am on it.
Gimme 12 hours more.
So what's the status with this [NewIdea]? What's the masterplan? What does the time schedule look like? What is going to happen now? What's is the primary goal with this [NewIdea]? What are the bosses thinking about upstairs?vicmarcal wrote:i am on it.I am on it.
Gimme 12 hours more.
He might have been talking about this: http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=9606Witch wrote:So what's the status with this [NewIdea]? What's the masterplan?
BrentNewland wrote:Marat Karatov told the Russian President the project could be completed with about 1 million euros.
I'm visualising a donation/fundraising campaign that takes the total amount needed and splits it into individual projects. Display could be similar to Donors Choose, where donors choose which projects to fund (encourages donations). You could also have a classic thermometer showing how close you are to the total goal (again, another form of encouragement).
Obviously not every project could be funded simultaneously (because most projects would need some other project to be completed before it could be started) - you could link each project to its prerequisites so that a project doesn't show up until all prerequisites have been fully funded. You could also display every project and its prerequisites (so people can strategically donate), similar to a a Tech Tree (perhaps done in flash, on a separate page of course).
Maybe you could get big organizations like Google, Apple, the Russian or Chinese governments, Sony or Nintendo (since they compete with the 360), IBM, Oracle, VMWare, Red Hat, Canonical, Novell, etc. to match any funds raised during a specific period. Combine this with getting articles at major sites (like Slashdot, ArsTechnica, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Register, etc., all would have to be prearranged), a couple articles on Reddit and Digg, and an Oprah appearance and you should have this OS done in no time.
Maybe I missed this somewhere, but why can't we go ahead and set this up anyway? I'd suggest only opening it to 2 or 3 contracts at first, and let people see the impact it makes. You know - give an idea of the average time things took before contracts and list the time it took with a contract. Once people start catching on, more will begin to donate. People don't give to vague generalities much, like "Help ReactOS!" People are MUCH more likely to give to something concrete, like "This developer will code XX functions for ReactOS in XX days and would like $XX to make it happen."vicmarcal wrote:A pity we don't have enough donnors to move this idea forward.
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