>This blog post for me is evidence that we can make crowdfunded open source work, as long as the people receiving the money know how to effectively use it. Isn

>This blog post for me is evidence that we can make crowdfunded open source work, as long as the people receiving the money know how to effectively use it. Isn't this a restatement of the problem? My (uninformed) impression is that there are structural issues that make it hard to effectively run crowdfunded open-source projects. As you say, the secret sauce appears to be a question of managing the organization. Do you have any thoughts on how to reproducibly run such a projects?