Soloreaper
I would support it, but as whitenight says. We would need to know it was going to good use.
We currently have a very small development team and more funding would obviously help that...any up and coming developers can help work on Ryzom we should be helping to promote the game to C++ developers and getting them involved in the google coding project for this summer.
Soloreaper,
Thanks for promoting Ryzom Core's Summer of Code 2012 entry. The student application deadline is long past but we have some pretty promising students. So this is pretty hopeful. We even have some who are looking at adding some game functionality. Last year we had a student add guild-based missions to Ryzom Core. We'd love to see that get used in Ryzom itself.
I started a blog for the Ryzom Core developers recently based on some feedback in a couple places - one was that the project seemed "dormant" and the other was that we were perceived as being employed by Winch Gate and working directly on Ryzom.
Check out the first post: http://blog.ryzomcore.org/2012/04/welcome-to-ryzom-core-developer s-blog.html
Short of getting a Kickstarter project up and getting a bunch of people to pledge money to Winch Gate I still want to emphasize that if you have any interest in improving the Ryzom platform please come visit the Ryzom Core community. No reasonable patch will be rejected. No reasonable feature will be dismissed. You really get the ability to provide "Ryzom 2.0" features that you want. So please, come visit us and get involved.