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On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 4:46 PM Eric K. Miller
<emiller at genesishosting.com> wrote:
>
> > Our community has mostly relied on commercial distribution vendors and
> > service providers to fill that role in the past. If enough of their customers say
> > it's a feature they're relying on, then employing developers who can help
> > keep it maintained is their raison d'être. This is how pretty much all free/libre
> > open source community software projects work.
> > --
> > Jeremy Stanley
>
> Understood.  I thought there may be a way to crowd-fund something in case smaller operators had small budgets, needed some feature supported, but couldn't afford an entire employee with the small budget.
>
> Maybe there are developer consultants interested in a gig to maintain something for a while.  Not sure where the best place to go for matching operators with consultants for this type of thing.
>
> fwaas seems like such a necessity.  We would love to offer it, but it is unusable with DVR.  We just don't have the budget to hire someone specifically for development/support of this.
>
      Smells like a case for gofundme time. Or, is there still time
for google summer of code submission?

> Eric
>