will you use $500 of professional widget skinning if I provide it to you?

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I am writing a book on Rust. Surveying indicates GUI related materials are the most in demand. I realize you are doing fantastic work; however, I would enjoy to be able to show more sleek looking widgets and the like. Is it possible to work with you to implement some range of basic widgets, and to help pay for the graphic design work to give a modern, professional looking set of UI elements to the Rust community, even if it is just a collection of buttons, text input boxes, and the like?

I may be able to contribute like 20 hours of coding and $500, upon double checking my financial situation, but am only going to think more about it if I know that you are likely to incorporate the skins I pay for, and to perhaps work with me toward ensuring a basic collection of widgets like check boxes, radio boxes, and the like.

Ultimately, I would like to work with you to skin all piston widgets with professional UI elements that will be provided with a very friendly license like MIT or something that we agree on, with the hope that you will make these the default widget skins; moreover, I would like to contribute some specific widgets, and to request a couple be implemented as well, and to sort of collaborate together for a brief period of time --- perhaps two weeks or so --- just toward making things a bit sleek and modern looking, and adding some additional widget functionality to try to get a baseline collection of standard GUI feature set that looks a little aesthetically pleasing and modern.

I would want to be able to demonstrate all pertinent code that I write in my commercial book, and any related code of yours that I am integrating it into; as well as to be able to use the resultant code I write and widgets I write to commercial ends (while not restricting the ability of others to do so as well); not certain your license regarding the products produced by your toolkit.