squarebear wrote: I will pledge 1% (€100) though I'd really like to see something approaching a business plan that details ongoing monthly costs that we'll be committing to. I'm a programmer, though I don't know this technology so it'll be back to school for me

That's great! Thank you for your Commitment and your willingness to take action
I'll be sending you a PM

Dear Grid-Iron community!

Your humble servants, a.k.a. the Buy-Out Project Management Team, had it's weekly meeting today and I'm pleased to say that we're making progress.
There are two main topics we discussed: the initial buy-out, and the operational side of running the game after a succesful buyout.
For the operational side we need a solid plan before we can ask you, the community (or anybody else for that matter) to contribute financially to the buyout. An important piece of that puzzle is to have software developers available who can fix bugs and introduce new features (I'm expecting jokes about engine 2.0 in the comments below hahahaha). This week we plan to have a meeting with software developers who could fill that role for us.
A second topic that we will work on this week is the financial plan. We intend to make this game non-profit, where any money that comes in is invested back into the game itself and of course we need to have a good view of what that would mean in practice before we ask you, the community, to contribute financially to the buy-out.
So things are progressing! If you have any questions or remarks please let me know, either through the forum or via a PM!

On behalf of the team,
Ewout a.k.a. Simpathia

simpathia wrote: Hi Community! Here an update from the Community Buy-out Project. We are progressing steadily on the things we need to get organised to be able to make a bid on this game we all enjoy playing. We're talking to a number of software guys and we're also progressing on the business case. So we're progressing and hoping all this will result in a serious bid! Regards, Ewout

We appreciate your time and effort

TheGamingMo wrote: Hello all. My name is Mario, and I am a good 37 years old. I work as a QA engineer and software developer, and I'm involved in a few open source projects. On the side I am self-employed with a small agency for software development and project management. I would be interested to participate with work, organisation and financially. Kind regards Mario

Hi Mario,

Thank you for your reaction!
I've sent you a PM with an invite to the Discord.
Great to have you on board!

Regards,
Ewout

Beside the disscusion above,

iam not a sales man or a software developer, but i played football in the ELF/GFL, if i can bring any support to this project, let me know or hit me up.