Projects Needing Financing

We have built a web 3.0 online music property and are hoping to launch once we integrate a few critical improvements to our current site. Startups tend to get a bad rap, I understand this. Logging long hours and being paid with promises is never an easy thing to do. Ironically, this is exactly what we're asking you to do. Our company is in a position to offer equity plus pay you a reduced fee for your contract work that will bring our site to a place we feel comfortable launching with.

Why do it need fund?

A bit of history

I initially developed Node Media(NM) as a patch for Node Images(NI) for a custom project. This gained recent attention because the moving to D6. So stefano73(author of NI) pointed NM as successor of NI.

People needs this lightweight alternative

Now that Drupal 6 is out, getting the project* family of modules ported to D6 is going to become an urgent task. We want to ensure that by the time the final release candidates are out, we're ready to upgrade drupal.org to D6 (which must happen before the official 6.0 release is possible). That's going to take a lot of effort, and hunmonk and I have some very specific plans for how it should all happen. This page will be the place to keep track of what has to get done, in what order, so that anyone who wants to help knows where to put their efforts. It's obviously a work-in-progress, so feel free to help keep it updated, add issue links where appropriate, cross off things that are completed, or add other steps that need to happen.

I'm cross-posting this to a lot of groups since: a) converting project* to use views is a big part of this effort (so we have significantly less code to support in project* and port to newer versions of core), b) since we need lots of volunteers/help, and c) in case anyone is able to help sponsor some of this work to ensure that everything is completed well before the core maintainers would like to ship 6.0. Thanks!

Hi there.
I'm currently working on a Share This module similar to the version available for Wordpress using code compatible for Drupal 5. It will display bookmarking sites within a jquery dropdown and allow you to share your site by clicking on the relevant bookmarking site.

Does anyone require this module and maybe intrested in a bounty? I'm looking for $400 and currently have someone intrested and contributing $100.

Here's an example of the module on a Wrodpress Site: http://alexking.org/blog

Also i've setup a Chipin for this too:
http://mitesh.chipin.com/share-this

First off, I just joined this group and I'd have to say it's a damn good idea and needed.

I know a lot of people in the community use 37 Signals' Basecamp for their projects and for myself, one thing that has been extremely annoying is the fact that you can never have a central place to go to that aggregates all of your to do list items or milestones from all projects to the same place.

I'm talking even in situations where your client is the one that owns the Basecamp account so then you have to login to theirs.

Drewish has a reverse bounty going to add the ability to use external files with the audio module. This will allow you to have a remote store of MP3 or other audio files, and easily include them in your Drupal site, including in a Flash audio player, using the audio module.

See the Drupal issue tracker for more details: http://drupal.org/node/47998

I'm glad Darren Oh has got a solid proposal for this group. I would suggest that the most needed aspect of a Drupal marketplace would be a way for individual Drupal users and Drupal shops – especially smaller shops – to pool resources to fund specific module development.

User dahacouk called for more structure and a funding model to make the quality of contributed modules the best they can be.

To quote from my endorsement and proposal:

Khalid Bahey is well on his way to getting a patch into Drupal 6 for spitting out logging of watchdog entries so that:
1. They can be routed to a different source other than the database, from a flat file to syslog support. The watchdog table can crush many sites.
2. Actions can be taken depending on the messages. Get notification via email, IM, pager, etc. depending on the severity levels of messages in your watchdog.

This will be a fantastic feature for Drupal 6....but really, we need it today for Drupal 5 as well. I've spoken with Khalid and he's willing to backport both the patch as well as the supporting modules. The plan of attack is:

where one can ask for volunteers developers to join a project, instead of asking for money? We are working on a project based on an "everything is a node" approach and we clearly run (and will run) into a number of problems.

The site is online here http://eng.i-iter.org We are not looking for or willing to accept money, but will accept any coding help in instead. So this seems to be wrong place to publish such a call. Is there anywhere like "the right place"? :) Thanks

Not too long ago, Google announced FREE processing of your Google Checkout sales until the end of 2007. That's right - more than a year's worth of free processing!

From now through December 31, 2007, you can process Checkout transactions for free, even if you aren't an AdWords advertiser. If you're already an AdWords advertiser, you can process your Checkout transactions for free regardless of your AdWords spend.

This potentially affects folks who use Drupal's ecommerce and advertising modules. Wouldn't you like to use Google Checkout (GC) for your Drupal web site(s)? Before that's possible, we need someone to create a module. Unfortunately, GC currently works ONLY in the United States. Regardless, I'd like to see a developer step up and write a membership subscriptions-based, recurring credit card charges capable module and I'd be willing to make a small financial contribution. Here's a short GC video demo, but please read on for more info.

Before initiating a fundraising campaign, there are five important questions you’ll need to answer as mentioned in How to Use the Internet for Group Fundraising.

What issue does your campaign target?
Where is the money going to go?
Who can you ask for financial support?
When do you need to meet the fundraising goal?
How are you going to convince people to support the campaign?

There is additional helpful info at On Group Fundraising

Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
$50 Hosting Discount Helps Projects Needing Financing

In order to periodically update the reverse bounty status of Projects Needing Financing**, please refer to the table below.

The table is an informal list of Projects Needing Financing by the respective project maintainers/developers. If you are maintaining/developing a project with a reverse bounty and have knowledge on any of the column headers listed in the table for your respective project, please add your comment on this page so that your comment can eventually be included in the table.

Please read on for more info.

Thanks,
Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
$50 Hosting Discount Helps Projects Needing Financing

My name is Mack Hardy, I am the technology manager for a non-profit called Post Carbon Institute.

Post Carbon Institute is running OG for its Relocalization Network (http://www.relocalize.net/grouplist). We all need communication tools to organize, only when we are organized can we be effective. We want to enhance og2list so that our users can choose to use email as the primary interface to other people in their groups. OG2List is promsing, but has a couple outstanding features which we are going to fund further development of.

The scope of the next stint of work will be:

Whether or not you need funding for your Drupal project(s), it would be good for all Drupal users to vote for Drupal. Your vote could, ultimately, help with any needed funding you and/or other developers require in order to complete a Drupal project. Voting is now open and ends on November 7! There is $5,000 up for grabs!

As mentioned in Packt's Open Source CMS finalists announced, it would be great if folks would
vote TODAY for Drupal as "the best CMS" and help Drupal claim the $5,000 first place prize. Did I mention $5,000? ; )

Hi,

We're about to make some major changes to core components covering recurring payments, role assignments and user account provisions. More information about how E-Commerce is now and how it will be changed can be found attached to a post in the E-Commerce group.

We are looking for funding from E-Commerce site owners out there that have used the E-Commerce suite on their site.

Cheers,

Sammy Spets (E-Commerce core maintainer)
Synerger Pty Ltd
http://synerger.com

Cross-posting from http://drupal.org/node/77562 ...

We've seen explosive growth in 2005 and 2006 based the ability for Drupal sites to rapidly deploy new features that meet real world customer needs, not just fulfill technical requirements. This project aims to increase consultant and site administrators ability to effectively manage releases, security, versioning, issue tracking, and feature deployment into customer ready production environments. By directly improving the Drupal.org release and project management infrastructure we will speed up the life cycle for meeting customer and user requirements and ultimately improve the ability to manage Drupal web sites. Donating to this effort (via the PayPal link on the full proposal) provides funding to accelerate volunteer contributions the Drupal.org project maintainers have made over the past 8 months.

Overview

• Contributions will have real releases and version strings, just like Drupal core itself
• Security announcements will refer to exact versions of modules that are effected
• Issues will be tracked by the exact version number of the contribution where the bug is present
• Development branches for any given version of the Drupal core -- maintainers can add new features to their module or theme without endangering the stability of other code that is compatible with the same version of Drupal core.
• All contributions will be clearly identified with the version of Drupal core they are compatible with

For the rest of the proposal, please see the full post on drupal.org.

See watermark.module bounty

(Note: I'm going to gather bounty posts as I see them and cross-post here...then at least we have a central record)

Heya Walt

Nice to see my pic on the move! Here is an alternative that might work better in this context. Let me know if you want something slightly different.

Simon