Hi,
a few more thoughts to sum things up:
In general, paying travel, lodging and other costs (expenses) for
community members is a good thing, I'm all for it, given certain rules
are met.
Payment for volunteer work should never occur. It is just too risky, we
cannot satisfy everyone's needs and requests. There might be rare
exceptions where we should nontheless pay for work time, but these need
to have a compelling reason.
In many cases, things cannot be done by volunteer work. Then, funding
for a commercial company/service provider should be granted. However,
these companies are usually not part of the community, so payment is not
going to a volunteer. Otherwise, volunteers simply could reject
volunteer work, but offer contracted work through their company instead,
which is not desirable.
Things like the summer intership programme and the documentation bounty
are on the one hand bad, because money is given for people's work of
one, two or three months, while long-term contributors to OOo are never
paid. However, these contests serve more needs: They give lots of
attention to the media, and they are usually meant to attract new
volunteers. Therefore, I can agree with paying for work time as part of
these contests.
You see, this is indeed a hot topic and we should discuss wisely and
sensitive...
Florian
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