Pay-per-feature suggestion

[febs]

why don't you implement a pay-per-feature facility?
you can fix an amount of cash for each feature. every donation can be targeted to some feature. if you reach the target, you give highest priority to *that* feature.

developers of blender (a 3d modeller and renderer) earned lots of money by promoting donate-for-feature:
one for leaving the code free (gpl) - don'r remember how much, i think 100.000 dollars (really)! and the other for developing and releasing a manual - more then 1000 dollars, see www.blender.org

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[Cybermynd]

that's an interesting idea. however, i wonder if someone throwing in $20 for something that wasn't too popular would ever get what he was donating for.

say i wanted speech synthesis so it would announce the media before playing. $20 and 2 years later i got nuthin'...

just as an example.

still, i think the idea has potential...

[febs]

you will not have nothing. you will have something else. and there are good chances that it will be good, to you too.
in other words, you supported the project!

anyway, in my thoughts the list of available pay-per-features would (?) be restrict only to a small range, choosen by developers (or with a poll, why not).

that's it.

[thebeast]

i think this proposal is somewhat interesting. keep thinking about it, you never know, it might just make sense. it is one of the dilemmas of open source development, that a good "solution" might be different for each project, but similar on a smaller scale.

[Gamester17]

i find this idea interesting too, problems would be figuring out how-to recieve payments, how-to admin and who on the team would admin it

[mvoosten]

very nice idea!

[thebeast]

one can of course always donate via http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/info_contrib.htm

and perhaps send a message to the lead developer(s) about feature, but maybe the current donation page, could be of inspiration, for any suggestions on how pay-per-feature could be done.

i also think, if one could get the many users to donate more often (somehow!), xbmc developers might justify spending as much time as they do on it, without perhaps feeling as much a"sacrifice" of time.

of course there is also many people testing xbmc. i just had the idea that, a pay-for-xbmc support method would also make sense. i know of a couple of (pay-for-support) local sites like that (eksperten.dk), where you get points for solving other peoples problems, and these points can then be used to buy other peoples answers.

this would probably make the most sense, if there was a link to a 3rd party website, where this pay-for-support could take place through a forum like eksperten.dk or google answers. i think it'd get people to help out more seriously (because they could see a benefit in doing so), and also people could get support easier. i think this is what's happening everywhere else.

but of course forum and irc support or discussion will never go away, it will just be in addition to that.

[Frodo]

sounds like a good idea
frodo

[titusonline]

i'd be willing to pay if zip and rar support were added :d
after all xbmc is great as a dash...

[cameronsto]

Originally Posted by (titusonline @ feb. 19 2004,12:28)

i'd be willing to pay if zip and rar support were added :d
after all xbmc is great as a dash...

what are you wanting to do with zip and rar? i've seen this posted before but don't know the reason. is it so you can zip up your movies and such and have xbmc read them that way?

just curious.

-cameron