Something like www.experts-exchange can be used as a model.

Every individual can deposit money for to the system and receives some
credit.(Ex. 1$ = 1 Credit)  You can post a job/project for a certain credit.


Anybody can accept the offering, after the delivery and acceptance of the
work credit will be taken from the account of the requesting party and
transferred to the developer. 

At the end you have certain amount of credit you can withdraw it of use to
by some services of products etc.

Ali
 
-----Original Message-----
From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Avi
Bryant
Sent: maandag 29 maart 2004 4:37
To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Subject: Re: How to bring money in the community


On Mar 28, 2004, at 11:21 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:

> Right now there is no legal structure to collect funds, so 
> people/organization
> cannot give money. I would like to buy Squeak3.7. I think that there 
> is a difference between open-source and paying to get a good 
> distribution. We should invent our own market.

This is extremely vague and probably silly, but would it be at all 
useful to start a sort of "squeak of the month club"?  Anyone who 
wanted to join would pledge, say, $10 or $20 a month to go towards 
squeak-related development, and we would have some kind of voting 
mechanism to allocate the funds to specific projects each month.  
Rationally I realize this isn't much different from a bunch of 
individual $20 donations, but somehow I think people would be more 
likely to participate in something organized than just choose out of 
the blue to send someone a cheque.  And it might motivate us to get a 
structure in place that would allow us to accept larger-scale 
contributions later on...

Do any other open source projects do something similar?

Avi