[Linux-aus] [LACTTE] Grant Application: Growstuff

[Alex Bayley]

Sorry, just realised I didn't reply-all on this yesterday!

A.

On 24/09/2014 11:38 am, Alex Bayley wrote:
> On 23/09/2014 10:39 pm, Kathy Reid wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> Thanks for your grant request. Speaking as a member rather than as 
>> Secretary, I do have some questions about Growstuff and the funding 
>> request;
>>
>> - What will happen if the campaign does not reach $10k? If the grant 
>> were awarded and $2k were granted, but the $10k figure were not 
>> reached, would the money be returned to Linux Australia?
>
> We could do this either of two ways: 1) We return the money if we're 
> unable to reach $10k, or 2) Your sponsorship is used to support a 
> proportionally smaller amount of work, which I would do myself rather 
> than hiring a contractor. This is the basic plan for the fundraising 
> overall... if we don't reach $10k, we won't be able to hire another 
> developer to work on the project (it's not much worth hiring someone 
> for less than a month), but the funds would be used to pay me to do a 
> proportional amount of the work on my own.
>> - Is there a triaged / prioritised list of issues in GitHub that 
>> would be worked on if the $10k figure were reached?
> FYI we don't use Github for our issue tracker, but Pivotal Tracker 
> (http://tracker.growstuff.org).
>
> At present we haven't laid out our exact priorities/tasks as part of 
> the job is to consult with API users and our developer community about 
> what they need.  However, for your reference I have put all the 
> deliverables we have discussed so far in PT under the "API project" 
> epic, in rough order that we think we'd be likely to deliver them 
> based on dependencies etc.  You can find them near the top of the 
> "icebox" on the right hand side of the screen.
>
> As an indication, if we meet the $10k minimum goal, we'd expect to 
> create the v1 API framework and crops API, and at least 4 demo apps in 
> various languages, with documentation, etc within that timeframe.  
> Further work on the API would continue at whatever pace our volunteer 
> developers could manage.
>
>> - Are there any other major sponsors of the project?
> Not at present, though we're talking to some other orgs as well.
>
> A.
>
> -- 
> Alex "Skud" Bayley
> skud at growstuff.org
> http://growstuff.org/

-- 
Alex "Skud" Bayley
skud at growstuff.org
http://growstuff.org/

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