Re: Would you like to work on improving Emacs full time?

[William Gardella]

Tom <address@hidden> writes:

> We should know if there are interested developers at all in order to
> judge if this model could work for Emacs. (Of course, there can be
> interested developers who are not on this list, but I don't know how
> they can be reached, that's why I brought up the subject here
> where such developers are likely to be.)

The Emacs community is somewhat notoriously diffuse and difficult to
speak to at once via any medium, but I think that the EmacsWiki and the
#emacs channel on Freenode both reach a wider audience than this list,
which is seen (correctly or not) as a place by and for those who hack on
the official core of GNU Emacs.  When you post to this list, you're
mostly reaching people who already spend significant time maintaining
and developing key Emacs packages--and a few lurkers, like myself :) 

The best way to go about reaching the wider Emacs community might be to
create a "bounties" or "call for projects" page on the EmacsWiki and
publicize it through other media like the IRC channel and the identi.ca
group.

I think this is a great idea, by the way.  There are, no doubt, a lot of
freelance developers and admins out there who have elisp as part of
their skill set--often it's a factor that makes them more effective,
faster, better at their paid work--but who are seldom compensated
financially for this ability.

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