Maybe not as a replacement for someones income, but I am very interested in the competitive aspect of having bounties and completing the tasks. It's a lot like reputation points on the websites like http://stackoverflow.com/ having actual money compensation is a great incentive IMHO.
-Jason On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Dave <dave...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a professional full time employed software developer (in > Australia), I am on around 300AU a day, I can't see the incentive > scheme working ... sorry > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Christophe Drevet > <christophe.dre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2012/7/11 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <h...@goldelico.com>: >>> We did have that, but IMHO failed. To my surprise there were more offers >>> for bounties (even free GTA04 boards) than developers willing to do >>> something. Maybe a bounty of 50/100 bucks doesn't attract anyone these >>> days? >> >> If 50/100 bucks doesn't attract anyone, maybe 500/1000 could. I >> thought about using a reward offering page for each feature or bug >> important for some people. >> Do you have a bugtracker or something to track those ? >> Maybe we could add a plugin for people to offer bounties on specific >> tickets and for dev to see how much people want them fixed and what >> they can earn by stepping in. Maybe I can help finding/writing such a >> plugin (depending of the language used) >> >> Of course, that is just useful when we have some dev around. I, >> myself, won't step in as I don't have much time, and enough skill to >> work on GTA04 even if I had some money to buy one. Hardware/embedded >> development is somewhat harder than just software development. >> >> Good luck with this project. And thank you for your work. >> >> -- >> Christophe. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> community@lists.openmoko.org >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community