I have a concept to work with. Just that it would be great if there is a crowd funding for the theme. How about a crowd funding of $ 250 for this theme and ElkArte home page ?
(http://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2837.0;attach=2651;image)
(http://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2837.0;attach=2653;image)
I really cannot see a crowdfunding going to happen for a theme, given that the elk one has been done for free, and it's already pretty good and responsive...
I love the clear look and would spend some money for it. But crowfunding? I don't think this will work too.
No sin at all, lol, in fact I do some paid jobs myself every once in a while ;D
Not for personal gain. We can use that money to buy a Redactor license for ElkArte.
A very popular text editor :)
Sorry, but from me it's a big thumbs down for mixing closed and open source licenses.
Even have different open source licenses can lead to borderline cases, have closed source software mixed would mean that people receiving an Elk package would have to think twice before redistributing it. Now you can put the code anywhere you want and redistribute the package, with Redactor it looks like it's kind of allowed based on the kindness of the authors of the editor. Not acceptable to me. ;)
In that case, we can discuss on how to put best use of funds raised via crowd funding.
Wow it looks really nice :)
I'd suggest going the other way around. Raise the money (or accept donations) for the theme, and then present it to Elkarte. If nothing else, it pays for hosting. Or maybe the devs find another use for the money, like something we haven't thought of.
Better to be an altruistic gift than be seen trying to leverage something.
All my contributions to ElkArte are and will remain free.