RFC - Doing a crowdfunding for QtWebEngine in qutebrowser?

Tomáš Orsava tomas at orsava.cz
Thu Mar 10 14:39:11 CET 2016


Hi Florian,
definitively go for it, I think a lot of people are interested in this
little browser.
And if you provide a Bitcoin wallet address to donate that way, that would
be great!

Tomas

On 7 March 2016 at 15:36, Chris Salzberg <chris at dejimata.com> wrote:

> Hi Florian,
>
> Just one user here, but I'd be more than happy to put forward serious
> money to get the QtWebEngine work done, say USD$100+ if it helps. And I
> doubt that I'm the only one.
>
> The reason is simple: there are a lot of people out there who want a
> powerful, minimal vim-like browser, but you just can't buy them, no matter
> how much money you have! You have to just hope that somebody else builds
> it, or build it yourself.
>
> For those of us who don't have time or skills to build a browser like
> qutebrowser (i.e. pretty much everybody), putting forward a bit of money to
> support your (very modest) request seems like a real bargain. (Not to
> mention how minuscule this amount of money is compared to what goes into
> building a mainstream browser!)
>
> Even if (as you think) the community of qutebrowser users is small, for
> the reasons above, a crowdfunding call might work well and bring you more
> results than you'd think. It gives everybody a chance to support a really
> important step (QtWebEngine integration) which everybody agrees needs to
> happen, but which everybody also agrees will not be easy.
>
> I consider having a good browser up there in importance with having a good
> code editor. But whereas editors get lots of attention from developers, it
> seems like everybody is just happy to use Chrome or Firefox with whatever
> hacky plugin on top to do what they need...  which I think is crazy! I want
> something better than that. Qutebrowser is *very* close to the perfect
> browser for me.
>
> So count me in! And be ambitious with the crowdfunding drive. I think
> there's more support out there than you think.
>
> Chris
>
> p.s. As an example of a similar crowdfunding drive that raised quite a
> large amount of money, see git-annex assistant:
>
>
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joeyh/git-annex-assistant-like-dropbox-but-with-your-own
>
>
>
> On 03/07 at 12:44, Florian Bruhin wrote:
>
>> * Mel Boyce <mel at thestack.co> [2016-03-07 22:39:22 +1100]:
>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016, at 19:12, Florian Bruhin wrote:
>>> > - 2800 EUR
>>> > - 2100 GBP
>>> > - 3000 USD
>>>
>>> USD$10 from 300 people sounds manageable in exchange for modernizing a
>>> web browser of this caliber.
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, I doubt that. Hell, I'm not even sure it has 300 users.
>> Unfortunately, those things are quite hard to predict/measure.
>>
>> I guess in the end I'll just have to try and see what happens ;)
>>
>> Florian
>>
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