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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