Yorba crowdfunding Geary development
[Posted March 29, 2013 by n8willis]
Back in August 2012, Yorba
Foundation founder Adam Dingle spoke at GUADEC about the complexities of
crowdfunding development for open source applications. This week, the
group officially launched
a campaign at IndieGoGo to underwrite development of its open source
email client Geary. The target is US $100,000, which, as executive
director Jim Nelson explains,
is a number chosen to support three full-time developers for the next
release cycle. "I
doubt there’s a widely-used desktop application out there developed
for less than US$100,000 — it’s just that the price tag might be
hidden from its users." The campaign runs for one month; among
the many factors Dingle spoke of that differentiate between funding
sites, IndieGoGo only distributes funds if the target is met.
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