Re: Funding - Specifically identifying allocations

[Bill Denney]

I personally think that any bounty system like this should provide half 
(or some fraction, but I think that half is probably fair) of the money to 
go to John (or the UW foundation at his preference).  The reason for this 
is that since Octave wouldn't be there without him, I think that he should 
see more of the benefit (than the apparently 1% that is now funded).

With that condition, I like the idea of feature bounties, though.  I know 
that as a relatively poor grad student, I'd be more likely to code things 
of general interest with a bounty than things that just do what I want to 
do.

Bill

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Miquel Cabanas wrote:

> do you mean a bounty like the Gnome bounty at
> http://www.gnome.org/bounties/index.html?
>
> Miquel
>
> On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 09:19 +0200, Javier Arantegui Jimenez wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I agree. But I was thinking on something simpler. For example, JWE could
> > announce in the list and in the funding webpage that the project needs a
> > new $3000 server, $2000 to pay a writer to update documentation or $500 to
> > write a Windows native version. Until the objective is reached, ALL the
> > donations are destined to reach this goal. I think that is could be easily
> > done and it could be an incentive to donate.
>
>
>
>
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