Re: scratch the itch

[Arafat Medini <arafato at gmail dot com>]

Salam,

What a about an "intellectual fee"?
You use our infrastructure and you "pay" with participating in a given
time into one of our projects.
Or you donate code.
Or you make publicity about us on your website.
Or you donate money.
Or you promote our software, by hiring testers. You have your webiste
you ask the users to try ITL out, they find and erport bugs.
We do not always need direct contributions. Hire people to test the
software, hire people to test the website to test the docs etc... for
eg.
Test the DEs!!!
There are many idea...

salam,
Arafat


On 7/9/05, Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> --- Arafat Medini <arafato at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > I think simply relying on trust and good will, will not help us in
> > this project. I think that hoping for each other isn't the right way
> > too, nor is publicitiy or writing mails. I think, and you all can see
> > this, it boils down to: I want to do something revolving around the
> > Arabic language, and I want to get that done, so I use arabeyes. It's
> > more like a group of interest, ppl come here because they personally
> > have goals THEY want to achieve and when they're done they go away.
> > It's all interests. So how can we stress their interests? How can we
> > help them continue to work with us on their interests? How can we make
> > their goals come to fruition? And how can we "milk" them to get new
> > blood in or anything else... I think that's what core should be
> > concerened about. It's a total paradigm shift, it's shifting from "I
> > love my friend let's do something good for the world" to the more
> > realistic "you have interests and me too let's work together to
> > attain our goals"... I think core should think more about that...
> 
> Akin to Youcef's comments - do you have concrete ideas and/or suggestions
> for us to consider and/or discuss ?  I would also move away from "milking"
> anyone or anything since sooner or later they'll be offended from it
> (that's why cows are in stalls during the process and are not free to
> roam around :-).  What you are getting into, I think, is corporate
> alliances, etc which will come (and they did to a some extent) if
> we continue to produce and attain results.  What I think has happened
> is we started focusing too much on Arabeyes and less on the work
> we had to do for the Arabic language - so the sooner we shift that
> focus back to what matters most the more aligned we are to our true
> initial vision but this relates to say 4-5 people - what about the
> others ?
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
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