There's also http://www.freedomsponsors.org and I'm sure several others. Freedom Sponsors is more about fixing bugs as near as I can tell, which I think is actually more immediately useful. I like the model of Freedom Sponsors since it's more user driven than developer driven. That said, I have no experience with the site itself, and there's no reason we couldn't use both.
I think this could be a good way to get people working on "unimportant", i.e. non-mathematical, bugs or small features. Things for which most Sage developers would have little motivation to do otherwise. In my opinion, the money should be split (somehow) between the person who wrote the patch(es) and the person who reviewed those patches. -Ivan On Aug 9, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > I just found out about the website https://www.catincan.com/ > > It's idea is to fund specific tasks or new features of existing > open-source projects through crowdfunded pledges. > Does anybody have any experience with that page, or does find this an > interesting model to fund some work on Sage? > The benefit is certainly, that funded features might get done earlier > and more thoroughly, because money is in the end quite some motivator > to get things done. > On the other hand, this kind of partial funding could be discouraging > for other "pro-bono" developers. > > One core issue is also, who would get the money and how it is actually > distributed. It must be an US account, so in my eyes William would be > my first choice. > > Harald > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
