> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:46:30 -0400 > Subject: Crowdfunding revisited > From: dwhyt...@gmail.com > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > > Hey all... > > We talked a couple months ago about a Kickstarter-like scheme for paying > for bug fixes and enhancements. Actually, it seems this sort of thing > exists in the other direction: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bountysource > > https://www.bountysource.com/ > > Bountysource is a site for people to put up funded requests for changes. > People put up issues to fix, along with amounts pledged to the fixing of > them (I've seen $0 pledges, so I guess the pledge is optional), and a > person receives the bounty if a fix is checked in and accepted. >
There's also http://www.freedomsponsors.org/ I've seen some LibreOffice related items there... This site works both ways: as a kickstarter (a developer publishes some idea he/she wants to work on, and waits for someone to make an offer) OR as a sponsor (users file a bug or enhancement they want and pledge a certain amount of money on it being worked on). just my AR$0,02 ;) > The site is for any open source project with a public homepage. There's > entries for LibreOffice, VLC, PhoneGap plugins and others (none for > OpenOffice so far). They also, yes, have fundraising efforts for really > big changes/features. > > Essentially anyone can say they fulfilled the bounty request. Then there's > two weeks for the bounty poster to say, "Oh no you didn't!", otherwise the > bounty gets paid. > > This from a ten-minute read of their FAQ. There's a little bit more to it > than that, but that's the gist. > > Think we'll be seeing OpenOffice bounties? > > Don
