funding

This (somewhat old) post from Zacker does a great job summing up a catch-22 that comes along with an open source community like Drupal (allow me to excerpt):

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• most of the value created by the Drupal community that vendors and consultants rely on to sell as services to customers come from unpaid core contributions
• many of the seasoned Drupal core hackers are getting job offers left and right to come and do Drupal consulting full time.
• This is creating a scenario in which while many more people are paying their bills through Drupal hacking and more and more business are built around business value created by the Drupal community, it is not getting any easier to make sure the heavy lifting on core work is getting done.

What can we do now to make sure that some of the money coming into the community over the next year is put back in to supporting the core work that we as a community are relying on?

STATUS

Status date:

3/1/2007
Drupal 5.x version released!
2/10/2007
Drupal 4.7 version released to community - available on Drupal.org.
Classified Ads for Drupal!.

No longer seeking a bounty to get it released, but I'll gladly accept donations if anyone wants to support ongoing development :D See http://exodusdev.com for a donation button - they're on every page, you can't miss them!

Cheers!

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