Hi, On 17.08.2013 17:52, adrelanos wrote: >> I am sure there is a clever scientific term for the phenomenon that when you >> start paying *some* of your volunteers, others are gonna look and ask, "huh >> wait a second, we're all doing the same work, yet the other guy now gets >> paid, >> and I am just supposed to keep doing this for free? Screw that." > Yeah, I read about that phenomenon as well. If you'll add money to add, > you change the nature of the service and fewer people want to volunteer > out of civil courage.
We tried to have that discussion quite some time ago, when the Torproject relay funding was announced [1]. I hoped for more participation, but in the end I had to come up with a scheme. It is indeed a tough problem, but I guess we have to try and see how it works out. In the end, it is/would be about covering parts of actual *costs* of infrastructure, not the time people volunteer to maintain it. It is already the case that (large) parts of the Tor network are funded by donations or sponsorship. I do hope that the call for more diversity (and ever-growing needs for moar bandwidth) does not draw away too many volunteers. A second problem we're facing with relay reimbursement is that we don't want anyone to actually depend on the reimbursement. We will release more information shortly (sorry, I don't have the time to write a more detailed mail right now), but I hope we designed it so that it limits this issue. [1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/turning-funding-more-exit-relays etc -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/ -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
