Big +1

/Klaus

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:08:13 +0100, Marcus Denker <denker at iam.unibe.ch>  
wrote:

>
> On 07.03.2006, at 01:28, Russell Allen wrote:
>
>>
>> I have been thinking lately about Software Bounties. Increasingly, large
>> open source projects are providing mechanisms for people to put up a
>> bounty for a particular feature - the first person to implement the
>> feature gets the bounty. The feature is then made available to everyone
>> under the standard open source licence.
>>
>> Examples:
>>
>> * http://www.gnome.org/bounties/
>> * http://www.ubuntu.com/developers/bounties
>> * http://bountycounty.org/
>>
>> The bounties aren't equivalent to the commercial cost of writing the
>> software, so it is not a straight forward case of hiring a programmer.
>>
>
> .....
>
>> What are the opinions of the people on this list?
>>
>
> We have already discussed about bounties on the SqF board list,
> and it would be interesting to know the opinion of people about this.
>
> I personally think having a platform for posting/managing Bounties would
> be very nice to have... I can't say I have a clue of how good this works,
> but it would be an experiment we should do.
>
...
>            Marcus
>
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