Well, we’ve had a busy few days on the WPMU Plugin Contest front!
Not only have we had several excellent entries from Donncha (MU domain mapping) and dsader (Limit Users per blog, Toggle admin menus sitewide and Limit post revisions sitewide) but we’ve also had another $150 added to the prize pool ($100 from Trent Adams and $50 from Kevin Gormley at MyLocalCause.com).
This takes our current prize pool to US$1225!
Thanks for the submissions and prize money guys – do you know anyone else who might like to contribute to the prize pool? The WLTC plugin contest has managed almost $4000 in prizes… it would be great if we could get close to that!
This is awesome. :)
Unfortunately I’m very disapointed that you went to the premium route this mean that I can no longer retrieve plugins for wpmu or even be apart of the forums with out coughing up the dough.
How Unfortunate.
Tim
Well Tim, I’m guessing that you have a job? And that if you weren’t paid for that job, then I doubt you’d show up. Not that you would necessarily be all nasty, you might help people our without getting paid by providing some of your services or what it is you do for free, but at the end of the day, you’ve gotta make a crust, right?
Well, WPMU plugins, projects and associated work are our crust.
This site, running wordcamps, wpmudev.org, the free plugins we release there, my theme packs and plenty more – that’s for free – and I couldn’t be happier about it.
But somehow we gotta make a living, right?
James and Andrew give back to the community a lot with free stuff and with a great plugin competition, so it’s all good. Some of the stuff that goes premium is a little ridiculous and should probably be free, but they are completely in the right to charge for some of what they create. I would be singing a different tune though if everything they did had a price tag, since WPMU is free and most of the community does not charge for their contributions.