> I've had a glance at www.cosource.com in the past, but does it work? My
> impression is that they have very few projects with serious bids. But I've
> only looked at it briefly.
If you push your own proposal, then it would work. I agree that it's a little
silly to just toss a request/proposal out there and hope people will fund it
magically. But it can be an effective organizational tool for collecting funding
from many small sources, it seems to me. I don't know any success stories, but I
don't know any failure stories either. Just seems to be a good fit.
> >From a casual look, www.sourcexchange.com seems to work much better; I guess
> the difference is that there the projects are solely paid for by the people
> who proposed them.
Works great (http://www.vivtek.com/wftk.html is my own little SourceXchange
project) -- but there, the requester is funding, as you say. The model doesn't
match your needs in this case, which is why I didn't suggest it. Now if you had a
sponsor already interested in paying $10,000 for arbitrary Analog enhancement...
But in that case, you'd just cut a contract and run with it. SXC is more geared to
the sponsor looking for developers; CoSource can work for the developer looking for
sponsors. Again, CoSource isn't an effective marketing tool, so expecting that to
work would be a mistake.
But there's a guy with an open-source Perl book who's using CoSource to solicit
funding.
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