Sponsoring of Neos UI and Media UI

Hi everyone

Our company, visol digitale Dienstleistungen GmbH, has decided to support the further development of the Neos UI and the Media UI. Having been working with @markusguenther, @dimaip and @sebobo in the past, we decided to support their work with €1500 each. They are going to organize their efforts themselves - possibly by doing a code sprint - and reporting about it in Slack.

We know that a lot of agencies using Neos and Flow already are supporting the project by purchasing sponsoring badges, organizing or sponsoring events, letting their employees work on the project or by providing public packages. We would like to encourage those who haven’t contributed yet to also start contributing in any way to foster the development of the project. For financial contributions (one-time or subscriptions), you can head over to the Neos funding platform.

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It would be so awesome if your outstanding decision become a role model for other agencies.
What the most may not know that your agency is not that big and that makes this decision more special.

Thank you for all the efforts. :blue_heart: :bowing_man: :clap:

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Thank you Lorenz and your company for all your efforts for the Neos project & community!

I want to mention the link to the Media UI funding page here on discuss Funding request for the Media UI Rewrite 1.0.
It contains all the details and possible questions can also be answered there.

I also created a current funding request overview page some time ago: Fundraising overview

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@lorenzulrich, I like your move. Not only the money that you sponsor but also the call to other agencies to consider that, too.

We - interezzo ag - sponsored some bugfixes and features that we needed for current projects in the last weeks/months. Usually we do it like this:

  1. When a feature or bugfix is needed, we talk to core team members (or other core-near people) about that and ask for an estimation.
  2. We ask our customer for a budget based on that estimation. Depending on the case we - as an agency - sponsor a part ourselves, especially when we see benefits for future/other projects.
  3. The feature/bugfix gets done/fixed.

As inspiration for others who might want to go the same ways some thoughts:

  • Finding a core-developer is most of the time easy via slack-channels. Once you are in contact with some your network grows and it gets even easier to find the right specialist for the job.
  • Of course you need to be able to give some reasonable timeframe to do stuff.
  • I was not sure how our customers would react to funding-questions but I was surprised. Not only we got a budget most of the time, but it also showcased that our agency has the right network in place to get some outsourced professionals to help. Your own customer might remember yourself as someone who has good connections to the core team which makes you a more valuable service provider for your customer.

I am quite sure our feature-related approach will continue in the upcoming projects as this concept works really well for us. If not, I will initiate also some general sponsoring in the future (additional to the badges and the event-sponsoring that we always do).

There is so much private time invested by the core team (and other constributors). Everybody who earns money by building websites with Neos/Flow should consider to also contribute something (code/money/time). As in many open source projects, the ratio of takers and givers is not fair. So lets not get tired of motivating more takers to become also givers.

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Hi Peter

Thank you for this excellent write-up of your process regarding community contributions. Not only did you contribute to the core this way, but you also provided packages in the Internezzo namespace. This is a very good way to support the project.

I can only support your last paragraph:

There is so much private time invested by the core team (and other constributors). Everybody who earns money by building websites with Neos/Flow should consider to also contribute something (code/money/time). As in many open source projects, the ratio of takers and givers is not fair. So lets not get tired of motivating more takers to become also givers.

Best,

Lorenz

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I deeply appreciate this move! Agencies like yours are the ones that enable me to stay active with the UI work (and that’s the most fun part of my professional life)!

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