On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandem...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've suggested this before without much response, but since this thread > seems to be encouraging repetition I'll give it another go. ;) > > I think a bounty system would be very effective(e.g. micro-donations of > recent political campaigns) in getting many of these problems resolved. > The main problem with a bounty system is getting people to pay since > certain needs/desires lose their urgency over time. To address this, the > system needs to be an escrow type setup where money is pooled until project > is complete, then payment in full is given. > > There are large barriers to entry in setting up such a system though such > as legal and financial hurdles. I don't believe the technical hurdles are > over-whelming and I would be willing develop a web front end for such a > system. Because of the barriers I believe such a system should be setup > and spun off by the FreeBSD Foundation and I don't want to do any dev > unless there is some momentum.
Hi Adam, I went down this road sometime ago and went so far as to create a portal so that iXsystems could manage the transactions (collect the funds and make sure everyone got paid). We put a bit of work into it and we would be happy to hand the keys over to the Foundation if it's useful at all. http://sponsorbsd.org/ Let me know off-list if you'd like access to look at the code. It's a simple CakePHP app and needs a little bit of love but worked originally before we migrated the server. Cheers, -matt _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
