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GNOME Project Receives $15,000 for Accessibility WorkGNOME Project Receives $15,000 for Accessibility WorkPosted Oct 29, 2010 20:22 UTC (Fri) by danielpf (subscriber, #4723)Parent article: GNOME Project Receives $15,000 for Accessibility Work
It always amaze me how free software runs on low budgets in regard of news like "UK Internet is now a £100 billion 'industry'":
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-10/28/100-billio...
No needs to say here that free software plays an economical role without proportion of the tiny investment given to Gnome. Yet such gifts have enough worth to be reported on LWN.
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GNOME Project Receives $15,000 for Accessibility Work Posted Oct 30, 2010 1:33 UTC (Sat) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] $15K would be enough to pay the salary, overhead, and taxes for a very junior programmer for several months (the other expenses an organization will have for hiring an employee will be 50% to 100% of the salary, remember, and it's maybe over 100% if there are travel costs involved).
GNOME Project Receives $15,000 for Accessibility Work Posted Oct 30, 2010 9:23 UTC (Sat) by danieldk (guest, #27876) [Link]
I do think that a larger accessibility budget would improve things tremendously. And I am always surprised that it is not possible. If every desktop Linux user that cared about accessibility or look and feel contributed one dollar, there would be millions of dollars for such work.
(Of course, I realize that there are 'logistic' problems ;)).
OT micropayments Posted Oct 31, 2010 14:36 UTC (Sun) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]
When will their finally be a good micropayments system for the internet ?
OT micropayments Posted Oct 31, 2010 16:34 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Once people figure out a profitable way to transmit nickels and dimes between international banks.
OT micropayments Posted Oct 31, 2010 19:04 UTC (Sun) by danieldk (guest, #27876) [Link]
I have no experience with Flattr, but that's what I see more and more on various websites:
I think something like popcon for donations would be ideal. Say, I want to donate 20 Euro per month. That money is then evenly spread among projects, based on my dpkg/rpm database.
OT micropayments Posted Nov 1, 2010 10:46 UTC (Mon) by sthibaul (subscriber, #54477) [Link]
But then you'll most probably not contribute to things like
accessibility, which, while being essential for some people, is not used by many people. So popcon alone is not a good solution in the case at stake.
OT micropayments Posted Nov 1, 2010 13:57 UTC (Mon) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
Too bad flattr takes like 10 or 20% of your donations for themselves... :(
OT micropayments Posted Nov 1, 2010 12:36 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link] I don't know. Did bitcoin ever take off?
GNOME Project Receives $15,000 for Accessibility Work Posted Oct 31, 2010 13:12 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
The "UK Internet" needs to build and maintain a lot of physical infrastructure. Of course it costs more.
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