On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:25:42 Joshua Gatcomb wrote: > Here is something to consider. Unless we can afford to fund an individual > full time with enough money for them to pay for their own health coverage > and other benefits, the amount of time they are volunteering is already as > much as they can afford. In other words, they still have to work a regular > job and make time for their family (or whatever substitutes for the real > world) and giving them money isn't going to equate to them being able to > devote to more time. That isn't to say that these volunteers don't deserve > to get compensated but it is unrealistic to expect that money will equate > to more time in many of the cases.
I could take a month's sabbatical from my day job for $5000 without losing insurance coverage or other benefits. That's slightly more than Audrey's $100/day, I know, but it's substantially less than my consulting rate and somewhat less than my salary too. I could probably make 100 - 150 high-quality commits to Parrot in that 30 day period. Perhaps more. I'm probably not the only Parrot/Perl 6 hacker in this situation. -- c
