The first attempt at a competition was a Kickstarter campaign. No money was collected, because Kickstarter is an all-or-nothing affair. (In other words, you didn't actually lose any money.) Cincom had pledged $5,000, but because it was all-or-nothing, they wriggled out of it. Otherwise, we could've run a downscaled competition. I've learned from that mistake and chosen to use GoFundMe. If necessary, I shall run a downscaled competition, assuming that I get reasonable funding. The last thing I want to do is run a chintzy peanuts contest; it would do absolutely nothing for Smalltalk. Tim Mackinnon wrote
I noticed that your gofundme update email went into my spam mail box - so I wasnât aware it had gone live.
Are you able to apply the funds from your previous campaign (The Ultimate Smalltalk Tutorial) to this one? As a contributor to that last one - which unfortunately didnât manage to deliver like you hoped, I am a little hesitant⦠I think this is often the way, we need to feel like its something that has gathered enough moment to succeed otherwise what happens to the money collected?
Donât get me wrong, I am a fan of your tutorials (it reignited my interested a few years back) - so donât count me out yet.
Tim
On 21 Jun 2018, at 11:23, horrido <
horrido.hobbies@
> wrote:
I'm disappointed in the response. Only two contributors of $100 each. This is extremely tepid.
There must be thousands of Smalltalkers around the world. How to reach out to them? It can't be that hard to fund this contest. I mean, there are many stupid causes on GoFundMe that have raised tens of thousands of dollars! This Smalltalk programming competition is anything but stupid.
If only 1500 Smalltalkers each contributed a paltry $20, the contest would be fully funded. It would only take 300 contributors of $100 each.
The question is: How much do we care about the future of Smalltalk?
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