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Example use of Kickstarter to fund a book (by Young Voices Nation)

YOUNG VOICES NATION: BOOK PROJECT

LAST CHANCE TO TAKE PART

LAST CHANCE TO:

- Get your name in as a backer
- Get a signed copy of the book
- Receive a Chong Kim original art piece

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY

A month ago I didn't know if the YVN: Book Project funding would be successful. I wasn’t even sure if using Kickstarter would work. But thanks to your overwhelmingly generous support I was proven wrong, and am now more inspired than ever.

If you've been on the fence about supporting, now's your chance.

On DrupalCon scholarships: We can do better

Wrote this on the post announcing the merit-based DrupalCon Chicago scholarship winners:

With 4,000 attendees

We can do scholarships for 100 people. We can certainly do better than twenty-one.

Funded Free Software

A Drupal developer asked outright what people thought of attempts to monetize. I responded to icanlocalize's blog:

For-pay support is definitely a model with promise and worth trying. Try to avoid keeping key pieces online and proprietary though; that i think is bad for the ecosystem.

Amazing Auction Enhancements

Updated to work with E-commerce Version 3 for Drupal 4.7
Files at bottom of post. Sorry about that folks! Module still Amazing Things specific in places, needs to be ported to 5 and cleaned up. Sponsors?

2008 Autumn Auction Season Update

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