{"id":533,"date":"2008-06-03T12:35:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T11:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=533"},"modified":"2008-09-08T18:21:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T17:21:12","slug":"what-you-wont-get-for-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/tools\/what-you-wont-get-for-100","title":{"rendered":"What you won&#8217;t get for 100$"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his weblog <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryceharrington.org\/drupal\/\">Infinite Knots<\/a><\/strong>, Inkscape&#8217;s Bryce Harrington explains that if you want to have a feature implemented in an open source project, offering money will probably not help. He describes how &#8220;folks who aren&#8217;t developers&#8221; challenged Inkscape developers to make the application work on MacOSX, after first having tried doing it themselves.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>if you want to get some feature or fix into an open source project, rather than offering money, have a go at it yourself. Even if it is well beyond your technical ability or time availability, your efforts may be enough to stimulate someone else to eventually have a go at it too. This could be a detailed procedure you followed that got close to working but had a fatal problem. Or a messy patch you made that *should* work but doesn&#8217;t. Or it might be a list of possible solutions you&#8217;ve ruled out and why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But what does he mean exactly by &#8220;<em>aren&#8217;t developers<\/em>&#8220;?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryceharrington.org\/drupal\/node\/52\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.bryceharrington.org\/drupal\/node\/52<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his weblog Infinite Knots, Inkscape&#8217;s Bryce Harrington explains that if you want to have a feature implemented in an open source project, offering money will probably not help. He describes how &#8220;folks who aren&#8217;t developers&#8221; challenged Inkscape developers to make the application work on MacOSX, after first having tried doing it themselves. if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}