[PD] Bounty [Re: no licensing, no money?]

=?X-UNKNOWN?Q?g=FCnter_geiger?= geiger at xdv.org
Thu May 19 09:10:46 CEST 2005


Hi Chris,

For me your proposal seems to be the only feasible solution for the bounty
system but I still believe that it is not what the original poster wanted.

The problem that the original poster had was to pay for the work already
done. Not by a single person, but by the community in the whole and
Miller specifically.

So, again, the idea of the treasurer and a non-profit organization is a
good one, paying people for coding, and especially the way that Novell
does in the gnome bounty system is not so good. I would rather pay
people for doing structural work, for attending to meetings, giving
workshops etc.
With the bounty system I already fear the features that get implemented
chosen by the criteria of who pays best ....

In Graz they already have a  non-profit organization for pd, and I know
that the legal setup is not complicated.

Maybe pd-graz can take over this task, they have done a faboulous job
with the pd-developers conference, the next time such a conference could
be partly financed by donation money and organized by the pd community
in the whole.

Guenter

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Chris McCormick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why not make a decentralised bounty system? someone with a paypal
> account is nominated 'treasurer' via a democratic process.  There then
> exists a website where anyone can create feature requests. Anyone can
> also add a bit of money towards a feature request, which goes into the
> treasurer account. Then, once the feature has been completed, if a
> majority of pledgers agree that the feature is completed, the money is
> tranferred to the account of the developer who did it.
>
> Not that I neccesarily agree with the concept of bounties in the open
> source world, but to me if there had to be a system that would be a
> logical one.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Chris.
>
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