[Adium-devl] Monetizing Adium

[Evan Schoenberg]

Quoting Chris Forsythe <chris at growl.info>:

> I dislike this idea in general, along with paying for features. The idea
> is for us to get someone on the team to be paid full time hours so they
> can work on Adium 40+ hours a week instead of at the most 10 hours a week.
>
> If we go with a feature based funding, the funding will dry up very
> shortly afterwards. The goal is to be able to fund someone to work on
> Adium for a lot longer than feature based payments would allow, imho.
>

Exclusively doing feature based funding would definitely be a dead  
end, I agree.  One thing a friend and I were discussing the other  
night was making feature-based funding (a) a possibility, but not the  
only one and/or (b) making some set percentage (10%?) of each  
merchandise sale go into a bounty-fund, the purpose of which would be  
determined by people purchasing merch. That is, after an order  
confirmation page, you have the chance to vote for what bounty funding  
should go towards for that month.  The top vote getter would have that  
month's bounty $$ roll into its coffer.

Being able to fund someone(s) to work on Adium itself rather than  
particular features is more important, I agree. (we could hire Colin  
back from Mozilla! :P j/k, Colin)

-Evan