[Zope] Re: Pay or DIO

[Heimo Laukkanen]

Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:44:51 +0100
From: Milos Prudek <milos.prudek@tiscali.cz> To: zope@zope.org Subject: 
Re: [Zope] Pay or DIO (Re: Quality vs. Quantity )

 >> Suppose it's $5 monthly for subscribing.
 >> If there are 100 subscriber, Dieter got $500 monthly.
 >
 >Realistically it would be more like 10 subscribers. Believe me.

Mm.. could be, but as far as I am concerned, I would most likely pay for 
example $100 / year for a good support list, where I would know that 
there is a person dedicated for answering people's questions and this 
way also updating somekind of knowledge pool.

The procedure could be something like this:

1) People who use zope commercially would propably have no problem 
coughing up $100 / year. Let's be overly optimsitic and say that there 
would be 100 subscribers, which would make up $10 000 for Zope Corp.

2) Zope corp. would then use this small amount of money to put someone's 
  worktime into keeping up this list and updating answers into free 
knowledgepool. Some of the questions posted to the list would propably 
be found in the database, so the work would be copy & paste and some 
minor editing. Also other persons on the list would contribute to the 
problems posted by others - thus contributing more to the knowledgepool.

3) Everyone outside this list, would be able to use the knowledgepool 
free and this way also benefit from all the answers...


Ok. This would only work - if there would actually be atleast those 100 
users paying the small fee to help the cause. This would only work - if 
that money would actually be used to have someone answer questions and 
maintain some kind of better answer database.

Or am I just too idealistic? I wouldn't mind contibuting to this kind of 
  thing financially if I would know that there are plenty of others too! 
It means more help and money in long run also to me, if I can help Zope 
become more popular and better product -- and get better help to my 
problems.

-huima