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

[Marius Schebella]

Hi,

I think yet another point should be thought over. I can understand that the 
university wants to have a confirmation or a bill or something they can 
hold in hands, a paper which makes them feel happy instead of a software 
licence.
So why not have a certain certificate which makes someone an official 
sponsor of Pd. For a fixed sum of money. 500 / 5.000 / 50.000 / 1.000.000 
USD (exlusive contract for one year... hehe). Additionally they will be 
listed on a website and maybe mentioned in the annual Pd-report... They 
want to spend the money now. Please take it!!!

Later we decide who is responsible for the money (one person, many persons, 
an organisation) and for what the money is spent (programmers, structural 
things, workshops, meetings, artwork...)

Marius.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "günter geiger" <geiger at xdv.org>
To: "Chris McCormick" <chris at mccormick.cx>
Cc: <pd-list at iem.at>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [PD] Bounty [Re: no licensing, no money?]


>
> 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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>>
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