Re: [libreoffice-design] All at once?

[August Sodora <augsod@gmail.com>]

> My own estimate would rather be north of 500k. But that's just me. If you> have a serious proposal and the full specs for citrus you could propose> this to the BoD.

That brings up a good point that I have seen mentioned a couple of
times on this list. It is (virtually) guaranteed that nothing will
ever change without specs.

August Sodora
augsod@gmail.com
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On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Charles-H. Schulz
<charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> Tobias,
>
> My own estimate would rather be north of 500k. But that's just me. If you
> have a serious proposal and the full specs for citrus you could propose
> this to the BoD.
>
> Best,
>
> Charles.
> Le 9 déc. 2011 21:32, "Tobias Bernard" <bertob93@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> hi all
>>
>> while we are talking about money: how much money would we need to get the
>> new UI done in, let's say, 2 years?
>> i think there are are many people out there who would donate a lot of money
>> if they knew they'd get a new UI anytime soon. we could, for example, start
>> a kickstarter campaign and raise money with one clear goal, such as: a new
>> UI in 2013 (example).
>>
>> of course, the changes to the UI could be done gradually as mirek said
>> several times and some functions could be available earlier, but having a
>> clear goal would certainly change the way people look at the issue.
>>
>> from the experiences other free software projects have had, i'd say it
>> would be possible to raise 200k or similar with such a campaign, if there
>> was enough media coverage. additionally we could also look for sponsors
>> (companies, governments, etc) to raise some of the money.
>>
>> what do you think?
>>
>> tobias
>>
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