2013-10-15, 07:49
Can't blame them really. XBMC is a community effort, and by that I mean, we are getting it from them for free.
What can we do to help? We can donate, but that ain't nothing compared, just think of all the hours they spent, and we only spent a few bucks.
Lets say one Team member has pulled in 400 hours, and his time was worth 45 bucks an hour (lets say that's his daytime job), that's 18 thousand dollars worth of man hours.
And even if you wired them 18'000 through paypal, short of paying someone to code, no way they could translate those $$ into an equal contribution to theirs.
So what can you do to help if you want to pull in some hours of helping?
Well you got a couple of options, the best and most time consuming being buying a few books on C++ and starting to code the hell out of some demo projects, until you can contribute something to XBMC.
Another one, that would probably give you more self satisfaction compared to how many man hours you would have to do, is to make some plugins or programs that people need or want (hint: The YouTube app doesn't work).
If you are one of those guys who feels like your head is exploding after trying to even imagining your self programming but you know a lot about XBMC, you could start by improving and cleaning the XBMC wiki.
Or if you are not that proficient with using XBMC, you might want to make YouTube video guides, but if you sound like a 12 year old school girl, get your mum to read a loud a script instead.
At the very least, you can tell your friends about XBMC and install it or even configure it for them if they need help.
What can we do to help? We can donate, but that ain't nothing compared, just think of all the hours they spent, and we only spent a few bucks.
Lets say one Team member has pulled in 400 hours, and his time was worth 45 bucks an hour (lets say that's his daytime job), that's 18 thousand dollars worth of man hours.
And even if you wired them 18'000 through paypal, short of paying someone to code, no way they could translate those $$ into an equal contribution to theirs.
So what can you do to help if you want to pull in some hours of helping?
Well you got a couple of options, the best and most time consuming being buying a few books on C++ and starting to code the hell out of some demo projects, until you can contribute something to XBMC.
Another one, that would probably give you more self satisfaction compared to how many man hours you would have to do, is to make some plugins or programs that people need or want (hint: The YouTube app doesn't work).
If you are one of those guys who feels like your head is exploding after trying to even imagining your self programming but you know a lot about XBMC, you could start by improving and cleaning the XBMC wiki.
Or if you are not that proficient with using XBMC, you might want to make YouTube video guides, but if you sound like a 12 year old school girl, get your mum to read a loud a script instead.
At the very least, you can tell your friends about XBMC and install it or even configure it for them if they need help.
