How about something along the lines of the following:
List active developers on the website for OI along w/ what they are working on.
If you want to fund that person's work, you sign up to provide a certain amount
which is divided into equal allotments for each month remaining in the calendar
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Can I ask that a percentage of the income, given to specific people,
goes into a common pot, either to help support Illumos development
directly, or to pay for tickets/marketing for conventions or likewise.
just my 2c.
Jon
On 29 January 2013 15:32, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
> How about somethin
> How about something along the lines of the following:
>
> List active developers on the website for OI along w/ what they are working
> on.
>
> If you want to fund that person's work, you sign up to provide a certain
> amount which is divided into equal allotments for each month remaining in
--- On Tue, 1/29/13, James Relph wrote:
>
> That sounds a pretty reasonable approach, although there's 2
> things I'd add:
>
> - The possibility to
> add bounties for requested features.
> - As Jonathan mentions
> - having a common pot (eg. 20% of donations go to
> that). Not j
On 29/01/2013 17:36, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
I'd like to suggest as a social convention that the initial "license fee" be
10% of system cost
UAHHH ! Then we should have stayed at Oracle..
Really, if you solve a problem for one system,
why should someone pay for the other 99 identical s
> I'd like to suggest as a social convention that the initial "license fee" be
> 10% of system cost and "support fee" after the first year at 5%. Purely
> voluntary the way tipping service staff in restaurants used to be. No
> distinction between used or new equipment. So if you spin up an old
--- On Tue, 1/29/13, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> From: Udo Grabowski (IMK)
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Developer funding model musings
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana"
> Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 10:50 AM
> On 29/01/2013 17:36, Reginald
>
I don't mean to discourage this dialog, but all of this was discussed two or
three - maybe four - months ago on the dev mailing list.
You might want to go back and look at the archives at the threads about
Alasdair's resignation - which basically boiled down to "none of the OI
developers want
On 01/29/13 06:47 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
--- On Tue, 1/29/13, Udo Grabowski (IMK)
wrote:
From: Udo Grabowski (IMK) Subject: Re:
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Developer funding model musings To:
"Discussion list for OpenIndiana"
Date: Tuesday, January 29,
2013, 10:50 AM On 29/01/
> I, personally, appreciate their efforts very much. I just think that funding
> individual developers is probably the best we can reasonably hope for at this
> time. It's not as complete of a solution as paying one or more people to
> work on OI full time; but at least it would be a step in t
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