Jurka, > One thing that definitely would be nice would be to be able to combine > funds from various sponsors for various features. Alone a company can't > spring for it, but by pooling resources it could get done. This is a lot > tougher to coordinate and unless there is a complete spec in place > different sponsors will pull in different directions. Other bounty type > schemes don't seem to produce results, largely from a lack of cash. > (Here's $500 for two weeks of work).
Actually, I talked to Opensoucexperts.com about this ages ago and they set up an online bounty system for OSS projects in general. I know that other players in the OSS space have talked about similar things; also companies like SRA and CMD are willing to act as development $$$ funnels for multi-party projects. > The problem is organization. Who decides who gets what money? What about > features that are paid for and worked on and not accepted into the > community codebase? This was something I hoped the PostgreSQL Foundation > http://thepostgresqlfoundation.org/ would step in and do, but we seem much > more focused on advocacy efforts rather than developemnt ones. Unfortunately, pooling funds for development is not something a non-profit can realistically do in the US without a whole lot of legal/tax help to navigate US law. Here NPOs are strictly defined as non-commercial. It might make sense to set up an NPO in another country, such as Australia, where the regulations on such things are much more liberal. More importantly, the Foundation is *still* waiting on its NPO paperwork from the IRS, and I really don't want to do any major fundraising while there's still the possibility we could be denied. > Well the backup should come up in a couple of weeks. I know that the new > pgFoundry is being worked on right now. Josh would have a better idea. We ran into a problem installing GForge. I don't know if Tom had time to work on it over the weekend; if not I'll be tackling it tonight. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
