Hi :) I'm not sure about this
http://blog.freedomsponsors.org/ The idea is for individuals or organisations to pick a bug-report or requested functionality or whatever and then write a promise to pay $£xx to whoever does the work. Then if a dev does manage to solve the problem or add the functionality or whatever then the Freedom Sponsors people collect the money from all the promises and pays the devs. Where it gets a bit hazy for me is that PayPal may charge a fee on top of that and Freedom Sponsors charge 3% on top too, in order to try to cover administration costs. Both things are allowed under GPL licenses but i know some people will object to paying anything for anything mistakenly thinking that Free (as in freedom) has to be free (as in beer). A lot of people do or have done a lot for free and it wrankles a bit to be asked to pay. On the other hand i got shed loads back just by being involved, back when i was quite into helping people on the Launchpad Answers. I have just found out that GSOC closed it's doors last week but there is always next year. I think LibreOffice got couple of projects in before the doors closed so hopefully the work will be done on them over the summer. Does anyone know of other such projects? Regards from Tom :)
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