Tony, I hate to rain on your parade because it's a very good idea, but isn't this something that the Apache Foundation should also be collecting at least as much as you are collecting (3%) for the service?
To keep things honest and since 3% is barely more than Paypal charges to intermediate the funds in the first place, I'd alternately suggest a Jira plugin project that Apache could use to manage this through Apache Jira itself. Because Apache is a large non-profit, it may be able to negotiate better terms with services like Paypal such that more of the money stays "in the family". While this may not sound as glorious as running this yourself, as eventual founder and PMC of the project, you'll still get all the recognition for changing the world of OSS for the better and will never have to worry about someone else getting a lead on your idea (nobody will be able to give more to developers than a non-profit with 0% holdback will). $0.02... On Jul 13, 2012, at 11:38 PM, tony Tony wrote: > Hi all, > > I have set up a website where people can place small money bounties for > open issues on Maven JIRA <http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG> (or > Jenkins, or Hibernate, or whatever). > > So far it's only got two real offers - and one of them I placed myself > (JENKINS-9216: > Make OpenID work with Google Apps > accounts<http://www.freedomsponsors.com/core/issue/11/make-openid-work-with-google-apps-accounts> > ), > but I really think that as it gets more popular, such a tool can have a big > positive impact on a lot of open source projects, especially popular ones > like Maven. > If you think so too, I welcome you to use it --> www.freedomsponsors.com :-) > > Cheers > Tony Lâmpada --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
