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Feature bountiesFeature bountiesPosted Aug 17, 2012 15:37 UTC (Fri) by alex (subscriber, #1355)Parent article: GUADEC: New funding models for open source software
Another option was bounties for features. However generally the sites that I've seen do that offer such pitiful bounties for features that massively underestimate the amount of work that would need to be done to implement them.
I've been interested in Flattr for a while - I must get round to joining and seeing if any of my projects attract any donations that way.
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Feature bounties Posted Aug 17, 2012 21:01 UTC (Fri) by dashesy (subscriber, #74652) [Link] As an idea I think there should be also some sort of motivation, it can be seen as a game with trophies. A Linux.com email is a respected trophy that adds to the other values that Linux Foundation membership brings. Similarly a badge with one or more numbers that show how much a person/company cares about freedom and open source would be a good thing to brag about. Same badge can be displayed on bugzilla when reporting a bug or requesting a feature, and other places if a common API is used (linking with OpenID maybe).Personally I would not mind paying for software if it is well written, open source is like science and is capable of achieving the higher quality because of real peer review.
Feature bounties Posted Aug 17, 2012 21:29 UTC (Fri) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]
> I must get round to joining and seeing if any of my projects attract any donations that way.
Somehow I feel that is the wrong starting point, though it seems like an obvious one.
I think it would be more effective to think "I must get round to joining and seeing if I can direct some funds to some useful projects".
If everyone does the former, nothing much happens. If everyone does the latter.....
Feature bounties Posted Aug 19, 2012 16:37 UTC (Sun) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]
Well obviously I'd also be using the Flattr buttons myself! It's not as though my side projects are done as a revenue raising measure, I have a day job which pays the bills.
I'd love to work full-time in the FLOSS eco-system but currently there are few organisations with the funds and I do have to support a family so I can't do it full time for free.
Feature bounties Posted Aug 18, 2012 19:15 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] the sites that I've seen do that offer such pitiful bounties for features that massively underestimate the amount of work that would need to be done Maybe it's just erroneous wording, but I don't think that's what you see. Those bounties don't estimate what it would cost to implement - they estimate what the feature would be worth to the offeror, and therefore simply tell us that implementing features is a waste of resources.
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