I've been working on such a thing too for C2I...
Maybe we can combine our efforts and make it a reality?

Per...haps.  The document that I'm working on will be kept internal, no questions asked.  However, public information will be released.  With this in mind, I'm not too comfortable bringing in anyone who isn't staff.

Slightly more seriously, it's an interesting idea. But I kinda agree with what Happybobjr said at the top of the previous page

As for this, I'm factoring in the inconvenience factor, and that won't be a problem.  (I'm trying to avoid any specific details at this point, so forgive my vagueness).

Unfortunately there are relatively few people that come to Omnimaga compared to Ticalc.org.
I don't think we would get allot of people w/o serious help from ticalc.  Maybe have a pay section that links to Omnimaga?

Yeah, I'm totally against selling software as well.  I wish I could help pay, but unfortunately, I don't have the excess money to.

I'm pretty sure that we patterned out app store after cydia's model, only some of the apps are being sold, the rest are free, at the creators digression. Most of the proceeds go to the developer. Maybe have some sort of libraries for third parties too? This would help ease the bad rep, and it would be based off of a practical and proven method. If a developer wants to sell their hard work instead of go open source, it's up to them. A demo system might be nice, or required screenshots or something, so people don't feel rippe of if it's not as good as they thought.

I usually prefer open sourced software, but I also appreciate the fact that some people want something back for their work other then just appreciation. Who are we to call it wrong, people do it all the time in the computer software world. It is a little hard fo our community to get use to though after so long with everything being free.

This shirts and stuff idea is also cool

I quickly just drew up an idea for what the t-shirts could look like. Obviously they are not perfect, but I think they get the point across. The only problem was that the site I designed them at charged $23 per shirt with only three colors in use. I can probably find a local screen printer with a much lower rate though.

My mom just told me she got a friend who have good prices on custom shirts for his band, more details tomorrow.

My idea for T-Shirts (see attached images).  The back would include a lot more names in a slightly better spiral in the final.  I listed them in order of posts, and I figure people can opt out if they really don't want their name on there for whatever reason.  And I probably should Kerm about using the Ultimate calculator in the design, but he wasn't on when I made this =P
EDIT, umm wow, i didnt expect them to be so large.  I'll upload them on my site then link, hold on...