On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> wrote: > Imagine a DD contacts you, she wants to setup an infrastructure to finance > Debian related projects (i.e. paying people to enable them to work on the > projects that they'd like to do for Debian) but she wants to avoid the > main mistakes made during Dunc-Tank; in her project: > - everybody can propose projects to be financed > - the projects to be financed are selected by the Debian developers and > by the donors > - eligible projects can only concern new developements and not recurring > tasks
This sounds quite similar to how the GSoC is done. The main problem in this scenario is actually finding the sponsors to pay for the developers, and then control that the projects get done as expected. > What advice would you give her? > What other pitfalls from Dunc-Tank must she pay attention to? We have already participated in a number of GSoCs (four, if I'm not mistaken), and it hasn't issued any social problems like Dunc Tank did. So, if there were to be other sponsors willing to pay for a similar thing, it's not likely that there would be a bad reaction towards it. However, if it's seen as a "Debian" thing, instead of an external thing like GSoC is, then it might lead to some resentment from the side of the people that don't get any money for their work. > Do you have concrete suggestions for her on how it should be working? The main issue would be that the whole process should be very transparent. When money plays a role, it's very important that everybody knows what kind of money we are talking about, what the responsibilities of the people receiving the money are, and how the whole thing actually benefits Debian. > Would you encourage her to go forward or would you try to convince her to > forget this idea? I don't like it too much, so I would definitely not encourage it. I'd tell them to discuss this idea (with more details) on debian-project and see what the general opinion of the project is, and only decide to go forward with it or not after that. -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e8bbf0361003130735y1a002efav2737b59c8025f...@mail.gmail.com
