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Ruby Mendicant

By sandal ( 190 Medal_gold_1 )

***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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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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