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.

> Although I am sadly not a billionare like Mark Shuttleworth :)

I think he made something like 550 million with selling Thawte... not  
that
there is any practical difference, though ;-)

Ubuntu has a lot of interesting infrastructure to learn from: e.g.,  
they have
a web-based system for managing translations:

https://launchpad.net/rosetta/+about

           Marcus