On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 05:30:35PM -0800, Sonax wrote: > Hi all. > > > Money: > I'm not into the details of how often toad get's paid or how much > money is usually raised on a average month, but it would seem that > the project has some extra money currently. If it is just a result > of people being in a happy christmas mood, ofcourse those money > should be saved for the summertime (or when ever), but if it is a > result of the project making/getting a bit more money than it takes > to pay toad maby they should be put to use? > Maby starting a bounty system for those things that toad can't fix > easily would make things run more smoothly (i can't help wonder if > the win-installer issues would have been fixed faster if toad, > besides saying that it should be fixed asap also had promised xx$ > to the first person to fix it?).
I don't have the authority to do that. > Ofcourse such a bounty system should be more organised (who pays > the money, who is the judge of when a problem is solved etc.) > But i think it might have it's strength in windows and mac specific > problems that toad can't fix, and maby also in other problems that > i as a non coder don't really understand. > Or, if the money is there, a second (part time) coder would be > possible? I'm just throwing it out there. I have no insight into > the echonomy of the project besides what can be read off the web > page. That might be possible. However the only way to be really sure is to try. And trying is quite hazardous. Anyway Ian is the person to talk to about this. I believe KenMan was interested. > > Snapshots mirrors: > When someone in the irc channel asks for a .ref file or similar and > they can't connect to freenet.org (for various reasons - censor or > hosting problems), i would like to have one (or more) unofficial > mirrors to point them to. Since i'm trying to remain semi anonymous > i will not send them to http://my-ip.dk/snapshots-mirror/. > So if someone would mirror these files and put a list of mirrors > out (on the wiki or in the channel topic or where ever), i think > that would be a great help for some (comming) freenet users. Well if it's a censorship problem, don't you think they'd get blocked too? :) But it might be worthwhile anyway. > > Project progress: > With toad (and friends?) working mainly on the simulations and few > new builds comming out it is hard for the average user, who dosn't > folow the conversations in the irc channel to see if anything is > happening or we have all gone home and left the project for dead. > I think it might be good for morale, feeling of comunity etc. if > toad (or someone else?) once in a while posted a little info of > what is going on, to one of the mail lists. Agreed. I should post more status reports. :) > I know it is hard to translate the numbers and graphs of the > simulations to somthing that we all (coders and non-coders alike) > will understand, and i'm not asking for a 10 page scientific paper, > but just a confirmation that somthing is happening. (Yes, i know > that toad is hired as a coder, not a journalist, but i really think > it would be good for keeping people around.) It's not unreasonable to expect me to keep the lists informed of current work and progress. > > > Have fun! > -- > Sonax > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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