[PD] no licensing, no money?

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I think the idea of Christian to form a non profit organization
that receives the money is a good one. The money then would be spend
for meetings like the pd-dev meeting, workshops, etc.
The meetings get organized by the developers community.

The bounty systems doesn't convince me.

Guenter



On Wed, 18 May 2005, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> On May 17, 2005, at 7:27 AM, Thomas Grill wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >> i think hans proposed using a bounty system for the pd development...
> >> i
> >> like this idea very much ...
> > what i don't like about the bounty system, is the idea of
> > "competition" or "hunt" which is not really compatible with
> > "community" to my mind.
>
> In theory, I guess bounties could be competitive.  But in practice, I
> don't think they would be.  For the most part, Pd devs work on there
> own stuff, and there isn't much overlap.  So bounties would allow users
> to fund the development of features that they want thru a process that
> is much more open than just giving money to a specific developer.
>
> We definitely should discuss this more.  SourceForge has a mechanism
> for accepting donations for the group, but the hard part is figuring
> out how this group would handle the money.  One idea is to have one
> developer, one vote, and work that way.  Each developer registered with
> SourceForge would have a vote.  Those who have contributed lots to Pd
> but are not currently part of the SF project would be encouraged to
> join.
>
> Just my two bits...
>
> .hc
>
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