Crowdfunding is the way of the future and will accelerate the growth of
open source and proprietary software.
Apache will have to come to grips with it since it is a way for
companies to ensure that their priorities get to the top of the pile if
they are only interested in providing money.
It will erode the power of the PMC since private groups will be able to
fund specific enhancements that have value to an audience rather than
features that appeal to the developers.
If the management of the Apache project leads the effort, it should be
able to collect something but if someone else is doing the job, it is
not clear where Apache fits in.
This means that the PMC will have to get a structure in place to focus
user financial contributions onto worthwhile projects and guarantee that
specific functionality gets incorporated into the project.
This will not replace the current collection of funds that are not
dedicated or contingent on a specific result but will provide additional
funding for specific features.
Ron
On 13/07/2012 5:16 PM, Brian Topping wrote:
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
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