Re: It may sound stupid...

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Tanguy LE CARROUR wrote:

> So recently I made a decision. If I have not time to work on it, maybe I 
> should pay someone to do it for me? Maybe not a full time job (I'm not

That's a great way to contibute.  I have an OSS consultancy and contribute 
2% of gross revenue to OSS projects.

I also encourage corporate users of OSS to budget a contribution or buy 
services from the core development team.

Quite a number of organisations exist to manage the finances of OSS 
projects, eg SPI[1].

[1] SPI is a non-profit organization which was founded to help 
organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. 
http://www.spi-inc.org/

Disclaimer: I'm a contributing member of SPI.

Another great way for non-developers to contribute to OSS projects is to 
write documentation.

Cheers,

Rob

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