Raise funds and find new contributors for AbiWord

Hello, AbiWord hackers!

My name is Rich Jones, and I'm the lead developer and director of a
project called Gun.io, a platform for open source project managers to
raise funds and to find new contributors to their projects. I'm
writing to you today to invite you to give it a try!
The way it works is pretty simple: you post a task which needs to be
done for your project and offer up an amount of money to pay for it.
Other people can then contribute to this pool of money, or they can
work on the task assigned. The first person to complete the task to
your satisfaction will then be awarded all of the money in the pool.
Gun.io is perfect for discrete tasks that your project needs to move
forward, like fixing bugs, adding new features, and writing tests,
examples and documentation. It's a great way to raise funds, too, as
your donors will know that their contributions are going directly to
improving the project.
Gun.io has already used successfully by the Etherpad Foundation and
Mozilla, the makers of Firefox. We are a fairly new project, but we
already have thousands of registered developers who will be notified
when your gig is posted.
This is also completely free for open source projects! I developed
Gun.io because I am an open source developer myself, and I wanted to
hire assistance for my projects but was unsatisfied with offshore
freelancers. I wanted to build a community-based solution which would
have open source developers working for each other, so that's what
we've made. I think that AbiWord could really benefit from what we've
built, so please give it a try!
You can see our homepage here: http://gun.ioyou can browse our open
source gigs here: http://gun.io/open/and you can post your own here:
http://gun.io/open/new/
If you've got any questions or comments (or if you just want to chat),
feel free to email me any time at rich@gun.io!
Thanks very much!
(I also apologize for contacting you all on this mailing list to
promote this service, I realize that this is an unsolicited message,
but this was the method of contact suggested by the AbiWord website.
This is my first foray into cold-emailing people and I'm trying to be
as least-spammy as possible. If you think this letter was
inappropriate, please let me know!)

-- 
Rich Jones
Director, Gun.io