<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><div>Those interested in Xna may have already heard, but Andrew Russell has decided to try to get crowd funding to progress his implementation before going Open Source with it. He copped a bit of flak for forking two other libraries (XnaTouch and Silversprite) then trying to get money for it, but he argues that he has made massive changes (improvements) and submitting patches of this magnitude is not feasible. I've given XnaTouch a try and I can say with certainty that there is much room for improvement. Find out more at the RocketHub page: <a href="http://rockethub.com/projects/752-exen-xna-for-iphone-android-and-silverlight">http://rockethub.com/projects/752-exen-xna-for-iphone-android-and-silverlight</a> and on his blog: <a
href="http://andrewrussell.net/">http://andrewrussell.net/</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>Apparently a similar thing was done with Blender. Personally I find it intriguing and I'm tempted to contribute. I'm pretty sure I'll find the end result useful, but I'm still hesitant to commit cash to something so nebulous that I'd get for free a few months later anyway.</div><div><br></div><div>This is just a heads up really but I'd be interested to know peoples thoughts on this approach to building an open source project.</div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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