... I will now be making this plugin regardless.
And I am still willing to donate or buy a license when it's ready.
... I will now be making this plugin regardless.
Again wrong. The fact that you can get the source code means very little. Even MS allows limited access to Windows source code, but that doesn't make Windows open source.no. XF is opensource. You are free to look at the code but to use it you have to give $$$. Open source is not automatically free. The big draw about open source is you have access to the source code itself...so you can review it yourself if you so choose. Just because it's open source doesn't mean it's free...don't continue to confuse the two..
I need this bridge to be completed soon, Lots of projects waiting on something like this.
IF this programmer can't finish the bridge in a few weeks I was thinking about putting the project out for bids on Freelancer. I would take the lead and front the money for the development because using Freelancer gives a certain amount of security. The only problem I see, in hiring a programmer to make this, is the continued support of the finished product. I am sending a message to one programmer, I have used in the past, to see if he is interested in making this bridge and supporting it .
Anyone else have any ideas for making this bridge happen?
I was originally going to do it this way but no-one wanted to "hire" me since they wanted to see a working thing before even contributing money, ....
I have hired out a freelancer for a project before and there is a difference between what you were asking and the way freelancer works.
Either the money for the project is put into escrow and paid to the developer only after they have completed the task, or the developer would complete the task, so a working version and then the buyer would release the funds to the developer and the developer would send the file over.
What you were asking people to do was send you (someone we don't know) the money before even starting the project in the hopes that you would be able to complete it in a timely manner.
I am sorry, but this just isn't a reasonable way of doing business. I understand your risks for spending time, working on this and maybe no one steps up to the plate and pays for it, but there was at least one person putting up a great deal of the original price you were asking for and that user has a reputation on this forum and others of paying his bill when he says he will.
Jamie
Yeh a lot of freelancing sites do use that, ....
- I can do this job, here is my relevant experience and estimated time and cost, do you want to hire me
If there interested I give them some way of contacting me and discuss an official arrangement, they either pay upfront full, partial upfront fee, or pay for each part they see working and completed. I use paypal and tell them they can demand refund and if I havn't fufilled my duties paypal will make sure I refund them.
Yes full upfront fees are odd and is not the best practice and does cause a lot of mistrust but if it is done through paypal there is buyers protection.
I'm not doing it that way any more anyway because I got no on-board response at all from it so why are you repeating something old and irrelevant?
I never blamed anyone there choice and I changed the approach for this project, not that long after either so it's barely time wasted especially since I found work to occupy my time while I was considering parts of the project. I mite not of gave you the impression of hiring me from this project but that wasn't the intention, this is supposed to be a contribution based project. Your opinion but you are seriously misquoting me.Not a lot, almost all of them do it this way.
No, I wouldn't hire you until I was sure you could do it and sure it would be done in a timely manner. You haven't given the impression of either for me.
Paypal refunds only protect the buyer but so much.. it's not a guarantee.
So if you know this, why not handle this like the many other people making money? Why go through all of this when the project could have already been done by now and you would have been paid (accounting for the number of people commiting to pay you) more money than you originally wanted.. It just seems odd..
I am 'repeating something old and irrelevant...' because your response to swankins made it seem like it was the buyers fault this never got off the ground.. because we won't just throw money at you before anything is ever started.
The jfusion plugin will come about one day... xF will take the forum community by storm, that's a given and when xF becomes the industry leader everyone will want to connect to it.. it's only a matter of time but you have the decision to make, you can get onboard and make some money or let someone else make it.. This of course is just my opinion that you can take with a grain of salt...
Jamie
We plan to release version 1.6.0 on 10 January 2011, assuming we don't find any High or Medium High issues that we are unable to fix before then.
I need this software now and can not pospone projects any longer.. I am going to post this project on Freelancers tonight.. There should be a lot of hungry programers wanting the work...
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