[Foundation-l] Re: Rewards for developers

Sun Jul 25 09:53:52 UTC 2004

Dori wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 02:51:19 +0100, Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>>Dori wrote:
>>
>>
>>>It seems too convoluted and prone to conflicts to work effectively
>>>IMO. Donors are unlikely to identify all the features/bugs needing
>>>work.
>>
>>Aw, come on now. That's not really a problem. We can certainly give
>>Jimbo and/or the Board of Trustees the additional power to assign up to
>>25% of unassigned donated money to development task.
> 
> 
> I don't know that we could. It might piss off some donors if we said
> we'll use this for hardware, and we end up using it for software
> features. Although we do have some money that wasn't donated, and we
> could certainly advertise that doners could donate toward a specific
> feature/bug.

The prize we had in june has no string attached, so might be spent for 
rewarding developers.
Also, I think that membership fees and donation should make it possible 
that the donor or the member may be able to indicate how if wishes part 
of the money to be spent. For now, I suppose we have three "specials"
* I would prefer that this be assigned to hardware
* I would prefer that this be assigned to software development
* I would prefer that this be assigned to wikireaders production 
distribution

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