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***NOTE: PayPal fiasco over, thanks to Garry from Pledgie. You can now resume donations here, sorry for the delay.
I am trying to raise enough money to put my commercial and personal projects on the back burner for several weeks / months, so that I can work on open source Ruby projects that are in high demand by the community.
I am looking for a small salary of $500/wk for up to 26 weeks of work, beginning on April 15, 2008. This means that $13000 would keep me working on this project for 6 months. Though I will be willing to accept some excess pay to make things a little more comfortable, I have set a cap at $20000.
If I don’t raise $13000, I will happily work for 4 weeks, or even 2. Of course, the longer I can keep this project up, the better.
Ruby Central, Inc. has agreed to match donations dollar per dollar up to $5000, so that means that I only need to raise $8000 from community donations to reach my goal of working for 6 months.
Please take a look at my full proposal for more details. Thank you so much for supporting this effort!
-Gregory Brown
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- 1. Anonymous
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Comments (13)
Mark Daggett said:
your url does not work.
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Gregory Brown said:
heavysixer, thanks for catching that so quickly.
Fixed now.
-greg
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Gregory Brown said:
Thank you so much to those who have donated! Things are looking good, for being so early on.
-greg
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Gregory Brown said:
1 month secured, after Ruby Central matches what we have now.
Hooray!
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Mark Daggett said:
Wow Ruby Central is going to match what you earn from this campaign? That’s awesome!
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Gregory Brown said:
Yes. All the folks over there rock, its very cool to see them support a grass roots effort like this.
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Gregory Brown said:
And now, 8 weeks of work have been funded!
Thanks all… it’s great to see this kind of support, and especially thanks to those who have blogged or otherwise spread the word.
-greg
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Mark Daggett said:
Wow that really sucks. Maybe we should add a google checkout option to Pledgie.
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Garry Dolley said:
Hey Greg,
I’m going to contact PayPal and see what’s up. No one was ever “blocked” before by using Pledgie. We have a contact over there and I’ll see what he says.
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Gregory Brown said:
Garry,
Whatever magic you pulled worked. My account has been fully restored.
Thank you so much! This is a great service and you guys are top-notch :)
-greg
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Gregory Brown said:
18 weeks!
Thanks so much, folks.
-greg
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Mark Daggett said:
Best of Luck to you greg! This was an awesome idea fora campaign and I hope to see you in the next 18 weeks!
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Gregory Brown said:
I wrote up a post-mortem. Thank you to all who donated and supported the project!
http://majesticseacreature.com/mendicant/
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