Hi,
It is not the first time that this kind idea was proposed. And I think that in the paper it's a good idea but to make it real, it requires some development and an organization.
There are a lot of crowd-funding services now and I don't think that could be a good solution for us.
Do we have to submit a request for each element in our todo list ? How select the feature to submit or not ? For how long the request will be open ?
I think that before having a additional funding, it could interesting to have some kind of "poll" or vote system.
Regards,
Jerome - Obsidev.com
HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team.
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