Hey, TL;DR: Bounties to enable everyone to contribute and push their favourite features/issues further are now possible with ownCloud. All while enabling contributors to earn a coffee while implementing OpenSource Software. (https://www.bountysource.com/teams/owncloud)
________________________________ Contributing time and resources into ownCloud was a great decision I made a while back. At one point the focus shifted to infrastructure (demo.owncloud.org, stats.owncloud.org etc.) and I had to reduce other contributions as time is sparse. There are countless features I would love to see improved. I could study the appropriate language and framework, build those features, and work on getting them merged into ownCloud. But all of that takes time, which we all know can be hard to come by. Taking time away from working on demo.owncloud.org is just not feasible. It's just not effective for contributors to do everything. We are working on free/open-source software partly so we can collaborate and move forward more quickly. This lead me to look for a way to get features/bugs fixed quickly. Something that would let me focus on providing more than 9.5 million impressions just in 2014 for the ownCloud demo and stats services and still support the features I love. Using the appealing concept of crowdfunding, I would love to see Bounties used as a means to get more people engaged and move ownCloud further. Bounties (a cash reward for implementing a feature, bug fix or anything else) could bring a new way of collaboration. Not everybody has time or the skillset to help out ownCloud directly or implement a specific feature. This enables them to give something back to the community without relying on them providing time and experience. For some of us this could even mean to concentrate on ownCloud related work to earn our coffee. A few bounties already exist for ownCloud, like server-server sync/mirroring (https://www.bountysource.com/issues/905996). I personally have already been looking through the different issues on Bountysource (https://www.bountysource.com/teams/owncloud/issues) to support the features I care about. With the help of Jos you now can contribute to the ownCloud team on Bountysource (https://www.bountysource.com/teams/owncloud) directly, which will fund the most requested and active issues or just push your favourite feature forward. Or just look through all issues (https://www.bountysource.com/teams/owncloud/issues). Cheers Michael (scalability-junk, stp-ip) PS: The additional time I get from collaborating is already used to work on new demo infrastructure "Single user instances" (https://www.bountysource.com/issues/3463043) and "Developer/unstable demo version" (https://www.bountysource.com/issues/3463145). _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
