[OpenIndiana-discuss] Developer funding model musings

[Jonathan Adams]

Can I ask that a percentage of the income, given to specific people,
goes into a common pot, either to help support Illumos development
directly, or to pay for tickets/marketing for conventions or likewise.

just my 2c.

Jon

On 29 January 2013 15:32, Reginald Beardsley <pulaskite at yahoo.com> wrote:
> How about something along the lines of the following:
>
> List active developers on the website for OI along w/ what they are working on.
>
> If you want to fund that person's work, you sign up to provide a certain amount which is divided into equal allotments for each month remaining in the calendar year.  Your choice of how much.
>
> The amounts currently committed for the calendar year per developer are shown so that people can make intelligent choices of where to commit funds.  Beyond a certain point more money to one developer will not make the work go faster.  It effectively "crowdsources" hiring and pay raises.
>
> For a sensible person to work full time on OI they need some sense of stability and predictability.  Martin's doing wonderful stuff, but I don't think he's being sensible.  But sometimes being sensible conflicts w/ major achievement.
>
> There needs to be a way to keep the transaction costs down.  The Paypal skim gets pretty hefty for a small monthly payment. If Paypal would be willing to take a single payment and split it into multiple equal payments with only a single transaction charge it would be pretty easy to set this up.  Does anyone deal w/ Paypal enough to know if they'd do this?
>
> The idea being to make it possible for an individual to work on OI as they would a regular contract job.  There's staggeringly high unemployment worldwide and in Europe especially.  That ought to get us some good talent at bargain rates if we can just work out a viable payment model.
>
> Have Fun!
> Reg
>
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