Eric Kow wrote: > I quite like this idea. I'm going to take your likely arbitrary $4000 > figure and run with it. > > How about this. Suppose we started a fundraising campaign, as soon as > our infrastructure is in place. Could we have these two targets? > > $1000 - we pay for some travel/accommodation to darcs hacking sprint > #2 > > $5000 - ditto + a Summer-of-Code-style student? what would be great is > if we could score /two/ students, say one from Google money, > and one from our own > > If we raise more money than that, plough that into sprint #3 and more > ambitious projects?
What about "bounties" as well? Some projects have shown that cheap bounties can be enough of an incentive for a new developer to try their hand at solving a problem... You could attach something like $50-$100 to some of the needs-volunteer stuff in the bug tracker. -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
