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В кластер включаются документы о сборе средств через краудфандинговые платформы для создания ПО или игр, и исключаются просьбы об открытии исходного кода без упоминания внешнего финансирования.
Общие признаки: краудфандинг, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, финансирование сообществом, разработка программного обеспечения
Группа выше: Краудфандинг
Смысл: The main idea is to promote the open-source game 0 A.D. and its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, arguing that professional support through crowdfunding can accelerate the development of high-quality, free gaming software.
Wildfire Games is seeking $160,000 on Indiegogo to further develop 0 A.D., an ambitious open-source historical RTS inspired by Age of Empires.
Смысл: The text describes how the gaming industry is evolving through crowdfunding, specifically how Wasteland 2 bypassed traditional publishing hurdles via Kickstarter to be funded by fans who value classic RPG mechanics.
Brian Fargo's InXile successfully used Kickstarter to raise over $1.2M for Wasteland 2 after traditional publishers rejected the 'old-school' RPG project.
Смысл: The main idea is to leverage the momentum of a successful crowdfunding campaign to build a community-driven development ecosystem for the Flipper Zero, transitioning from a small private team to a global open-source collaboration.
The Flipper Zero team is inviting developers and hardware enthusiasts to contribute to their open-source hacker multi-tool following a highly successful Kickstarter launch.
Смысл: The main idea is that the KolibriOS development team is seeking community funding via Kickstarter to host their own version of a 'Summer of Code' after being rejected by Google, aiming to continue the growth of their lightweight Assembly-based operating system.
After being rejected by Google Summer of Code, the Assembly-based KolibriOS project started a Kickstarter campaign to fund its own development cycle.