Hey all... We talked a couple months ago about a Kickstarter-like scheme for paying for bug fixes and enhancements. Actually, it seems this sort of thing exists in the other direction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bountysource https://www.bountysource.com/ Bountysource is a site for people to put up funded requests for changes. People put up issues to fix, along with amounts pledged to the fixing of them (I've seen $0 pledges, so I guess the pledge is optional), and a person receives the bounty if a fix is checked in and accepted. The site is for any open source project with a public homepage. There's entries for LibreOffice, VLC, PhoneGap plugins and others (none for OpenOffice so far). They also, yes, have fundraising efforts for really big changes/features. Essentially anyone can say they fulfilled the bounty request. Then there's two weeks for the bounty poster to say, "Oh no you didn't!", otherwise the bounty gets paid. This from a ten-minute read of their FAQ. There's a little bit more to it than that, but that's the gist. Think we'll be seeing OpenOffice bounties? Don
