Re: Money makes the world go round? Yes: new paid developer program for OpenPhoenux/Goldelico
Am 10.07.2012 um 16:33 schrieb rakshat hooja: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz wrote: On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 01:14:26 PM Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: The idea is that there is a mailing list where we (the project leading team) propose subtasks needing development (e.g. camera driver, bug fixing etc.) and interested developers can also make proposals what they could offer. We did something similar for the freerunner with cofundus. I can't seem to fing the website now. Maybe it wound down. I guess a wiki page with bounty offers would serve a similar purpose. 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? Therefore, we now start the other way round. Find people first who generally want to work for the projects. This is what the developer network is for. So if you know anyone who wants to do software (or maybe some hardware) development, please invite them subscribe to the developer-network list. So that we can contact them directly when we need them (sending an e-mail through a list is better than just posting on a wiki and waiting for people to walk by). And they can say what the conditions are, that they really commit themselves to do something. This all has the positive side-effect that we get more developers from outside interested in this community. Nikolaus ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Money makes the world go round? Yes: new paid developer program for OpenPhoenux/Goldelico
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
Re: Money makes the world go round? Yes: new paid developer program for OpenPhoenux/Goldelico
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
Re: Money makes the world go round? Yes: new paid developer program for OpenPhoenux/Goldelico
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
Re: [Wikireader] project gutenberg - was: updates not working?
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Doug Jones wrote: On 07/07/2012 04:28 PM, Alexander Lehner wrote: Gutenberg WikiReader files seem to got lost completely. http://dev.thewikireader.com/2010/06/26/project-gutenberg/ Sad - I liked that one. Any chance, to get it updated? A. The links on that particular page don't seem to work any more. But the most recent versions (from 2010) of Project Gutenberg are still available. The English-language version is listed on http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ but the German-language version isn't listed there. However, I looked around a bit and found: http://wrmlbeta.s3.amazonaws.com/deguten-20100608.7z.001 Thanks - got it! BTW: the wikireader tracker now seems to work again. I'm seeding all language packages now, hoping it will last another two years... A. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
