Posted by
Jacqueline Ross on
Apr 07, 2017; 5:33am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-Plugins-shop-tp5018455p5018461.html
Hi Pushkar,
I have to admit I'm a little disappointed to see that you want to charge for the use of plugins, when you have benefited from the work being carried out by others. It seems contrary to the open-source community ethos.
Kind regards,
Jacqui
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Sent: Thursday, 6 April 2017 11:27 p.m.
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Subject: ImageJ Plugins shop
Hello!
When I was a grad student I have done some plugin development of my own. I knew a couple other friends and colleagues who were good software tool making for the sciences.
Most grad students are good tool makers. However, the tools that a student builds often get lost when the student leaves.
When we develop software tools for ourselves - these tools start out in a form that is useable mostly by yourself. It is usually when we are developing it for our friend/colleague that we care for re-useability.
But once we do develop for someone else - the tool quality improves, documentation gets added, the tool gets feature updates and bug-fixes, etc.
We want to build a web-based community of developers and users that benefits from such exchanges.
We want to enable tools to be - discoverable, re-useable and supported by the author, for a price. Existing media (methods section of a paper, supplementary pages, and methods journals) are unsuitable for this purpose.
I am writing to you about a shop that we have just launched - imagejplugins.com <
http://imagejplugins.com/> . We intend for it to be a medium for plugin authors to earn a side income while the community benefits from their tooling expertise.
So please visit us at imagejplugins.com <
http://imagejplugins.com/> , browse through the range of software products for ImageJ and - we would be so thrilled if you join and become a plugin author on our shop!
We intend for imagejplugins.com <
http://imagejplugins.com/> to be a
marketplace for premium ImageJ plugins and macros that are contributed by authors and consumed by a web-based community of ImageJ users.
Your comments/suggestions are welcome! Please feel free to share imagejplugins.com <
http://imagejplugins.com/> , with your co-developers / colleagues/friends who may benefit from it, Tweet us, share us on Facebook - spread the good word :)
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Pushkar
imagejplugins.com
P.S.: imagejplugins.com is in its nascent stages, we will learn and improve as the user-base grows and we receive feedback.
Currently, we have added the free NIH plugins catalog to our collection - so you may find a plugin that you authored to be listed there!
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