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Ruby Mendicant
By sandal (add to contacts)
***NOTE: PayPal fiasco over, thanks to Garry from Pledgie. You can now resume donations here, sorry for the delay.
I am trying to raise enough money to put my commercial and personal projects on the back burner for several weeks / months, so that I can work on open source Ruby projects that are in high demand by the community.
I am looking for a small salary of $500/wk for up to 26 weeks of work, beginning on April 15, 2008. This means that $13000 would keep me working on this project for 6 months. Though I will be willing to accept some excess pay to make things a little more comfortable, I have set a cap at $20000.
If I don't raise $13000, I will happily work for 4 weeks, or even 2. Of course, the longer I can keep this project up, the better.
Ruby Central, Inc. has agreed to match donations dollar per dollar up to $5000, so that means that I only need to raise $8000 from community donations to reach my goal of working for 6 months.
Please take a look at my full proposal for more details. Thank you so much for supporting this effort!
-Gregory Brown- Tags
- open source and ruby
- Additional Information
- Launched Sunday, March 09, 2008
- Modified Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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Campaign Results
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70 Donors raised $5525.00 for this cause!
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| 1. Anonymous | 9 Mar | |
| 2. Ryan Leavengood | 9 Mar | |
| 3. William L Kleb | 10 Mar | |
| 4. Thomas Wieczorek | 10 Mar | |
| 5. Peter Cooper | 10 Mar | |
| 6. Aaron Patterson | 10 Mar | |
| 7. John Leach | 10 Mar | |
| 8. Andrew France | 10 Mar | |
| 9. Tim O'Brien | 10 Mar | |
| 10. Andrew Carr | 11 Mar | |
| 11. Michael Latta | 11 Mar | |
| 12. Shin Guey Wong | 11 Mar | |
| 13. Anonymous | 11 Mar | |
| 14. Elena Porfirieva | 11 Mar | |
| 15. Tim Fletcher | 11 Mar | |
| 16. Christopher Cummer | 11 Mar | |
| 17. Jonathan Lahijani | 11 Mar | |
| 18. Robert Dempsey | 11 Mar | |
| 19. Mike Woodhouse | 11 Mar | |
| 20. Francois Beausoleil | 11 Mar | |
| 21. Stuart Ellis | 11 Mar | |
| 22. Evan Light | 11 Mar | |
| 23. Björn Andersson | 11 Mar | |
| 24. Ian Wrigley | 11 Mar | |
| 25. Anonymous | 11 Mar | |
| 26. Anonymous | 11 Mar | |
| 27. atmos | 11 Mar | |
| 28. Andre Arko | 11 Mar | |
| 29. Dan Manges | 11 Mar | |
| 30. Giovanni Cristelli | 12 Mar | |
| 31. Rakan El-Khalil | 12 Mar | |
| 32. Brian Marick | 12 Mar | |
| 33. Simon Tokumine | 12 Mar | |
| 34. Pat Nakajima | 12 Mar | |
| 35. Vincent Woo | 12 Mar | |
| 36. David Whittington | 13 Mar | |
| 37. Tom Kersten | 13 Mar | |
| 38. Cornelius Mika | 14 Mar | |
| 39. Anonymous | 15 Mar | |
| 40. Anonymous | 15 Mar | |
| 41. Anonymous | 16 Mar | |
| 42. Garry Dolley | 17 Mar | |
| 43. Andrea O. K. Wright | 18 Mar | |
| 44. Eric Hodel | 18 Mar | |
| 45. Andrew Stone | 18 Mar | |
| 46. Martin Stannard | 19 Mar | |
| 47. Kevin Fallon | 20 Mar | |
| 48. Miha Filej | 20 Mar | |
| 49. jlapier | 21 Mar | |
| 50. Paul Morganthall | 22 Mar | |
| 51. Anonymous | 22 Mar | |
| 52. Nicolai Constantin Reuschling | 23 Mar | |
| 53. Guillermo Cantallops Ramis | 24 Mar | |
| 54. MarkWoodward | 24 Mar | |
| 55. Anonymous | 24 Mar | |
| 56. Yury Leikind | 25 Mar | |
| 57. Charles Lowe | 25 Mar | |
| 58. Anonymous | 25 Mar | |
| 59. Igor Velkov | 25 Mar | |
| 60. Ronald de Gunst | 26 Mar | |
| 61. ILJA TABACNIKS | 26 Mar | |
| 62. Luc Castera | 26 Mar | |
| 63. Maik Schmidt | 26 Mar | |
| 64. Anonymous | 27 Mar | |
| 65. Anonymous | 27 Mar | |
| 66. Louis Juska | 28 Mar | |
| 67. Jade Meskill | 28 Mar | |
| 68. Gregory Gibson | 29 Mar | |
| 69. William L Kleb | 31 Mar | |
| 70. Clifford Matthews | 31 Mar | |
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Comments (12)
Mark Daggett said:
your url does not work.
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sandal said:
heavysixer, thanks for catching that so quickly.
Fixed now.
-greg
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sandal said:
Thank you so much to those who have donated! Things are looking good, for being so early on.
-greg
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sandal said:
1 month secured, after Ruby Central matches what we have now.
Hooray!
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Mark Daggett said:
Wow Ruby Central is going to match what you earn from this campaign? That's awesome!
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sandal said:
Yes. All the folks over there rock, its very cool to see them support a grass roots effort like this.
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sandal said:
And now, 8 weeks of work have been funded!
Thanks all... it's great to see this kind of support, and especially thanks to those who have blogged or otherwise spread the word.
-greg
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Mark Daggett said:
Wow that really sucks. Maybe we should add a google checkout option to Pledgie.
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Garry Dolley said:
Hey Greg,
I'm going to contact PayPal and see what's up. No one was ever "blocked" before by using Pledgie. We have a contact over there and I'll see what he says.
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sandal said:
Garry,
Whatever magic you pulled worked. My account has been fully restored.
Thank you so much! This is a great service and you guys are top-notch :)
-greg
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sandal said:
18 weeks!
Thanks so much, folks.
-greg
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Mark Daggett said:
Best of Luck to you greg! This was an awesome idea fora campaign and I hope to see you in the next 18 weeks!
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