Pledge “gnash-avm2”
"I will pay 100$ to the Gnash project to develop AVM2 support but only if 10 other people will do the same."
— Petter Reinholdtsen, free software developer
Deadline to sign up by: 24th December 2010
15 people signed up (5 over target)
More details
The Gnash project need to get support for the new Flash file format AVM2 to work with a lot of sites using Flash on the web. Gnash already work with a lot of FLash sites using the old AVM1 format, but more and more sites are using the AVM2 format these days. The project web page is available from http://www.getgnash.org/ . Gnash is a free software implementation of Adobe Flash, allowing those of us that do not accept the terms fo the Adobe Flash license to get access to Flash sites.
The project need funding to get developers to put aside enough time to develop the AVM2 support, and this pledge is my way to try to get this to happen.
The project accept donations via the OpenMediaNow foundation,
http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/32 .
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Current signatories (
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Petter Reinholdtsen, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Gabriele Giacone
- Gaudenz Steinlin
- Dennis Worthem
- William Hay
- Marcelo Rezende Modolo
- Anders Runeson
- klaus ade johnstad
- Matt Kraai
- drd
- Andres Fuentes
- Praveen Arimbrathodiyil
- Sven Wick
- Leiv Hellebø
- 2 people who did not want to give their names, all of whom have done the pledge
Comments on this pledge
Important notice: I'm not affiliated with Lightspark or its devs.
Thus I have more belief in Gnash as a general replacement for Adobe Flash, and focus on Gnash for this pledge.
Lightspark is nice, do not get me wrong there, but its scope is too limited to fit my needs.
"I will pay 100$ to the Gnash project ... if 10 other people will do the same."
Me + 10 others = 11.
"9 people have signed up, 1 more needed"
9 + 1 = 10.
?
In this and other avenues it may be good to state that $1000 is an absolute minimum and that $5000 (50 people) is probably a better minimum.
So please spread the word. 10 people was the minimum to get the pledge going, but 100 people would be better. :)
Maybe we can get some pointers - How about starting a Twitter/Facebook page. Also we can discuss with Rob if possibly we can have some mention of this pledge drive on the gnashdev websites?
What say?
Dennis
So we will have to rely on word of mouth and the ability to read the commends for this one. :)
Petter, Dennis ?
Maybe with a target amount and a thermometer showing progress?
As for a thermomenter, I guess you can count grean Vs next to names on the pledge to see how it goes. :)