Over on Speckyboy, Andy Killen just restarted the discussion on rewarding plugin developers. It was a worthy topic of conversation when Alex King raised it last month in his Open Source Motivations post, and it’s a worthy topic now.
Why? Well, because we haven’t solved the problems yet.
Producing a Solution
Lately, a fellow plugin developer and I have spent our nights and weekends thrashing out potential models for a solution. These generally revolve around some combination of crowd funding new development, like a kickstarter for feature requests, and using subscriptions for premium support services, based on the bbpress plugin. This would all be tied together with the Prospress marketplace plugin which I develop.
It’s a complex problem that can only be solved with an entirely new and elegant system. We haven’t conceived a suitable model yet, but once we do, we’ll be releasing whatever we come up with as a plugin on WordPress.org Extend. The more help we get, the sooner that day will come.
You Can Help
The WordPress plugin community is tremendous. I know both plugin users and developers want to see this community continue to thrive. So if you want to help solve the problem it faces, get in touch.
As a plugin user, you can give us details about how you’d like to support plugins. It would really help us settle on a model.
Plugin developers can help us understand their pain points. And if they believe in the idea like we do, help build the thing.
If you want to help, contact me.
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HI Felipe, looks good. Is it available in the WordPress Plugin’s Repository or anywhere else?
Not yet planning to do that really soon
Hey! I’m interested in the idea. Someone had done yet? May be I can help.
Thanks!
Hi Sefo, I didn’t go ahead with it, but there are other related projects, like the one Felipe pointed to above and this one (which isn’t for WordPress): http://catarse.me/
Hello Sefo , Hope to finish the template this week…sorry for delay
I’m still looking for a wordpress plugin for a crowdfunding platform that uses PayPal Adaptive Payments API with chained payments. In other words- the payment is split between site and receiver. All or nothing funding projects over a fixed time. Anyone?
Hello Anthony , AppStorm has a wordpress template ..just check this out
http://appstorm.com.br/wordpress-crowdfunding-template/