Money makes the world go round? Yes: new paid developer program for OpenPhoenux/Goldelico

Jason Cawood openmoko at jasoncawood.com
Wed Jul 11 19:38:38 CEST 2012


Maybe not as a replacement for someones income, but I am very
interested in the competitive aspect of having bounties and completing
the tasks.  It's a lot like reputation points on the websites like
http://stackoverflow.com/  having actual money compensation is a great
incentive IMHO.

-Jason

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Dave <dave.tv at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a professional full time employed software developer (in
> Australia), I am on around 300AU a day, I can't see the incentive
> scheme working ... sorry
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Christophe Drevet
> <christophe.drevet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2012/7/11 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at goldelico.com>:
>>> We did have that, but IMHO failed. To my surprise there were more offers
>>> for bounties (even free GTA04 boards) than developers willing to do
>>> something. Maybe a bounty of 50/100 bucks doesn't attract anyone these
>>> days?
>>
>> If 50/100 bucks doesn't attract anyone, maybe 500/1000 could. I
>> thought about using a reward offering page for each feature or bug
>> important for some people.
>> Do you have a bugtracker or something to track those ?
>> Maybe we could add a plugin for people to offer bounties on specific
>> tickets and for dev to see how much people want them fixed and what
>> they can earn by stepping in. Maybe I can help finding/writing such a
>> plugin (depending of the language used)
>>
>> Of course, that is just useful when we have some dev around. I,
>> myself, won't step in as I don't have much time, and enough skill to
>> work on GTA04 even if I had some money to buy one. Hardware/embedded
>> development is somewhat harder than just software development.
>>
>> Good luck with this project. And thank you for your work.
>>
>> --
>> Christophe.
>>
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