User:Max Randor/forum response

this is the forum topic in question

I brought this up on the worldforge irc irc://irc.worldforge.org/lounge. The logs for which you can find at http://brenda.worldforge.org.

• I wondered what we would do with it and said that what we need most is people.
• I said that there did not appear to be a mechanism for giving money to worldforge anyway, no bank account etc.
• Glass suggested we would buy media or hire a team of artists
• (at which point I gave up on summarising and just included the condensed logs.)
• maxrandor* I mean there isn't even a donation button or anything I have come accross, and I am not srue that there is a bank acount to put it in
• glass* we would buy ryzom media
• maxrandor* it would probably cause more trouble than it is worth if it was not spent quickly on media etc *glass* yeah
• maxrandor* I am not sure the media is for sale anymore
• glass* well hire a team of artists maybe
• maxrandor* that would still create lots of tension because lots of people do work for nothing and if some people are being paid for it...
• simon* they could, but then people might expect us to do something ;)
• demitar* Not entirely related but may still be interesting. http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/01/14/new-research-on-motivation-and-money/
• maxrandor* "Reminders of money, relative to nonmoney reminders, led to reduced requests for help and reduced helpfulness toward others."
• demitar* MaxRandor: I'd say nothing at all until ryzom.org actually makes an offer, seeing how they don't actually have any money and that there will most likely be zillions of such suggestions that will just blow over.
• maxrandor* prehaps?: we would like to be given money, however we don't realy have anything to spend it on other than media, and getting media and putting it under GPL benifits everybody so is not nesseserraly a worldforge progject but open source 3d games in general
• maxrandor* saying something about putting lots of 3d media in colldala somewhere would be realy useful *demitar* Useful? Yes. Tricky? Tremendously. *maxrandor* I was thinking about posting something about writing down somewhere all the media etc. that is useful for such games and avialable under GPL that is out there to reduce redundancy etc.
• demitar* [...] making media that is properly reusable withing many different projects, without them all looking all the same.
• maxrandor* yes, that is a point
• maxrandor* but many projects with a shortage of media... colectively pobably having quite a lot.
• demitar* A good open media repository would be a very good thing.
• MaxRandor nods

maxrandor* wonders if the official responce is that no one called nerdler has been seen on the forums or irc, so to answer Boai - not under that username, but that we don't really know what would happen if we were given lots of money or whether the money is available to give anyway.

• alriddoch* Anyone know how much money they have?
• alriddoch* Who would they give it to?
• maxrandor* the money was for free ryzom in the form of pledges mainly
• maxrandor* so I am not sure how much is actualy real money
• alriddoch* Yeah, I know how they got the money
• maxrandor* so even if they wanted to give it to worldforge they might not be able to
• demitar* Since all was pledged to that specific task, there is no money I'd say. But people might be willing to spend money nevertheless, but that would be a different effort.
• maxrandor* and donations of time are prehaps even more useful than money
• alriddoch* Maybe we can sell them a monorail?
• demitar* *snickers*
• demitar* Well it would be real shiny if we could have someone hired with the main task to manage/organize things. Dunno if it would be the best way to spend such money though.
• erik* I like money.
• maxrandor* :-)
• demitar* erik: I think you have to sing a song to get the money.
• demitar* Oh, and you need to draw one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marge_vs._the_Monorail_Lyles_notebook.png
• maxrandor* :-)