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70: Pledges

Ruby Mendicant

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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

Categories: Open Source and Programming Languages
Tags: open source and ruby
Additional Information: Launched Saturday, March 08, 2008; Modified Tuesday, March 18, 2008; Viewed 8,879 times

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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Donors (70) Add A Donation Manually
Name	Date
1. Anonymous	March 9, 2008
2. Ryan Leavengood	March 9, 2008
3. William L Kleb	March 9, 2008
4. Thomas Wieczorek	March 9, 2008
5. Peter Cooper	March 9, 2008
6. Aaron Patterson	March 10, 2008
7. John Leach	March 10, 2008
8. Andrew France	March 10, 2008
9. Tim O'Brien	March 10, 2008
10. Andrew Carr	March 11, 2008
11. Michael Latta	March 11, 2008
12. Shin Guey Wong	March 11, 2008
13. Anonymous	March 11, 2008
14. Elena Porfirieva	March 11, 2008
15. Tim Fletcher	March 11, 2008
16. Christopher Cummer	March 11, 2008
17. Jonathan Lahijani	March 11, 2008
18. Robert Dempsey	March 11, 2008
19. Mike Woodhouse	March 11, 2008
20. Francois Beausoleil	March 11, 2008
21. Stuart Ellis	March 11, 2008
22. Evan Light	March 11, 2008
23. Bj�rn Andersson	March 11, 2008
24. Ian Wrigley	March 11, 2008
25. Anonymous	March 11, 2008
26. Anonymous	March 11, 2008
27. atmos	March 11, 2008
28. Andre Arko	March 11, 2008
29. Dan Manges	March 11, 2008
30. Giovanni Cristelli	March 11, 2008
31. Rakan El-Khalil	March 12, 2008
32. Brian Marick	March 12, 2008
33. Simon Tokumine	March 12, 2008
34. Pat Nakajima	March 12, 2008
35. Vincent Woo	March 12, 2008
36. David Whittington	March 13, 2008
37. Tom Kersten	March 13, 2008
38. Cornelius Mika	March 13, 2008
39. Anonymous	March 14, 2008
40. Anonymous	March 15, 2008
41. Anonymous	March 16, 2008
42. Garry Dolley	March 17, 2008
43. Andrea O. K. Wright	March 18, 2008
44. Eric Hodel	March 18, 2008
45. Andrew Stone	March 18, 2008
46. Martin Stannard	March 19, 2008
47. Kevin Fallon	March 20, 2008
48. Miha Filej	March 20, 2008
49. jlapier	March 21, 2008
50. Paul Morganthall	March 22, 2008
51. Anonymous	March 22, 2008
52. Nicolai Constantin Reuschling	March 23, 2008
53. Guillermo Cantallops Ramis	March 24, 2008
54. MarkWoodward	March 24, 2008
55. Anonymous	March 24, 2008
56. Yury Leikind	March 24, 2008
57. Charles Lowe	March 25, 2008
58. Anonymous	March 25, 2008
59. Igor Velkov	March 25, 2008
60. Ronald de Gunst	March 25, 2008
61. ILJA TABACNIKS	March 25, 2008
62. Luc Castera	March 26, 2008
63. Maik Schmidt	March 26, 2008
64. Anonymous	March 26, 2008
65. Anonymous	March 27, 2008
66. Louis Juska	March 28, 2008
67. Jade Meskill	March 28, 2008
68. Gregory Gibson	March 29, 2008
69. William L Kleb	March 31, 2008
70. Clifford Matthews	March 31, 2008
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