In response to a suggestion by Eric I have put together a web site for a proposed "JPP Bazaar". This web site would allow users to post "bounties" or small payments for bug fixes, other improvements, and documentation for OpenJUMP.
I believe that such a site may help cultivate a productive environment for continued improvement of OpenJUMP. The main purpose of the proposed site would be to match up users willing to fund small improvements with programmers willing to make these improvements. It would also allow users that seek the same improvement to combine small funding pools to pay for work. I have no idea how much use a site like this would see, but it the traffic wasn't insane I'd be willing to do the following: - Accept requests from users, review these requests, assist the users with editing of the request if necessary, and posting of the requests. - Post the profiles of programmers willing to consider requests. - Coordinate contact between programmers and the users making the requests. - Categorize incoming requests. I would not, however, want to become involved in payment or work performance issues. :] I'd just be running something like a classified ads section... You can view a shell for the site that I created here: http://www.redefinedhorizons.com/jppbazaar/ Note: This is just a sample. None of the hyperlinks are active, and the list of programmers willing to participate may change. (I'd check with all of the programmers before officially launching the site.) Any comments? Is this a good idea? Is it a bad idea? I'm curious what others think... Landon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
