On May 18, 2005, at 6:52 AM, Tim Blechmann wrote:
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.
i'm a bit afraid of the overhead of managing a non profit organization ... i mean the pd community is not as big as for example the firefox or the openoffice community ...
I agree. Also, a Verein might be useful in Germany/Austria, but does it
apply to the EU? I think it has little meaning in the U.S. and Canada.
How about Brazil, Egypt, Malaysia, Bulgaria, Japan? Setting up an
international NGO would be a ton of legal work, and not very productive
at this stage, I think.
But before we get sidetracked about all sorts of ideas about how to
manage the money, there is one issue that must get resolved before
anything else: how we make decisions as a group. We can discuss ideas
all day, but if we don't have a system for making decisions, then all
those ideas will remain just that: ideas.
There are a few ideas out there for how to do this: Debian-style
developer elections, core developer consensus. I believe that the
GNOME Bounties works on a developer consensus model: the developers who
work on a given part of GNOME agree on the decisions. With Debian,
Developers vote on resolutions and the Project Leader.
I think that the Debian developer elections would work best for the Pd
community.
.hc
The bounty systems doesn't convince me.
well, maybe not call it bounty hunt but market place, where people
could post their feature requests. once a request is assigned to a developer no one else is supposed to work on this ...this would definitely be easier to maintain ...
cheers ... tim
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