User:Witch

Goal

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Operation: Pacioli/Stauffenberg

• To create a stable influx of donations so that ReactOS can afford 10 full time programmers during a period of 3 years. In order to streamline the process a little faster.

• John's guide to earning an income from a Free and Open Source project

• Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.

• Practice is when everything works but nobody knows why.

• In this workplace theory and practice are combined together...

nothing works and nobody knows why :-D

Market Investigation

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Case Studies

• Why ReactOS?

• (ros-dev) Thanks. ReactOS helped me develop and debug Windows drivers.

• Police department in France saves 50 Million EUROS with open source softwares. - Swedish article

• That Police department in question. From EU Open Source Observatory perspective. - English articles

1. Microsoft Office ---> Open Office
2. IE and ??? ---> Firefox & Thunderbird
3. Windows Vista ---> Ubuntu

Budget 2010-2013

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• ( 3 x 3,000 € ) / month -------> 9,000 €
• during a period of 3 years. -------> ( 9,000 € x 12 months x 3 years ) = 324,000 €
• 10 chosen ones. -------> ( 324,000 € x 10 ) = 3,240,000 €

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Total: ~3,240,000 €

1. What criteria should those 10 programmers fulfill before game time?
2. How should the elections be done?
3. What's the least common denominator regarding the monthly paycheck for those 10 programmers. Most likely located in different parts of the world?
4. etc. etc.

Tax Benefits

For a FOSS developer and the donating company. Will need some case examples here so that companies all around the world can see how it can affect their own budgets.

• http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/new-york-moves-slowly-reward-open-source

30 seconds Elevator pitch

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Nothing formulated yet. It will probably be presented with some caveman paintings.

• 1 picture says more than a 1000 words, yadda yadda yadda.

Potential Donors List

• The list is merely a guesstimate!

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Hot

• CodeWeavers
• Google
• Adobe Photoshop
• LXF
• ThinCan
• TomTom
• DMP Electronics

Mild

• System76
• Dell
• Tesco
• Gliese IT
• Canonical Ltd
• Jamie Hyneman - Mythbusters
• SplashTop

Cold

• ATI
• Nvidia
• Intel
• AMD
• Paris Hilton
• Oprah Winfrey
• Warren Buffet
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation :-)

ReactOS have already asked us earlier this year!

• Company something something
• Company something something

The ReactOS project doesn't help us one bit, sorry!

• Microsoft