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Revision as of 12:25, 4 April 2009
Goal
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.
- 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
Case Studies
- Microsoft Office ---> Open Office
- IE and ??? ---> Firefox & Thunderbird
- Windows Vista ---> Ubuntu
Budget 2010-2013
Donations, don't be afraid - Quote
There is honor in holding out that rice bowl. For many people asking for help goes against their sensibility. Yet, as a developer of Open Source software you must overcome this obstacle. Like the Buddhist monk with his rice bowl, the church with its donation box, or the Public Radio station with its pledge drive you must also ask for support.
- ( 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 €
Total: ~3,240,000 €
- What criteria should those 10 programmers fulfill before game time?
- How should the elections be done?
- What's the least common denominator regarding the monthly paycheck for those 10 programmers. Most likely located in different parts of the world?
- 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.
30 seconds Elevator pitch
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!
Hot
- CodeWeavers
- 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
