[kwlug-disc] consulting fees

[Paul Nijjar]

That is fantastic. Congratulations. I am quite curious about how this
CAD company found out about Curv. Is the word spreading fast?

I have my own thoughts about how this situation would change what I
considered a "fair rate", but you don't want financial advice from me
unless you also want to be poor.

- Paul

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:29:34PM -0500, doug moen wrote:
> This is the really cool part. They want to pay me to work on my open source
> project, Curv. They sell a very specialized CAD product, and they want a
> new, more powerful geometry kernel for the next generation of the product.
> So they want to investigate whether Curv could be used for that. For that,
> I need to extend my geometry kernel and make it "industrial strength". I'll
> retain ownership of the new Curv geometry kernel and it remains open
> source. None of their proprietary "special sauce" will be in the open
> source project: that all lives in the application layer above the kernel.
>