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Feature bounties

Feature bounties

Posted Aug 17, 2012 21:29 UTC (Fri) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
In reply to: Feature bounties by alex
Parent article: GUADEC: New funding models for open source software

> 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.....


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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.

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