On Tuesday 05 August 2014 16:59:08 Michael Grosser wrote: > 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)
I think bounties are a great idea. I'm often asked by people how they can contribute financially to ownCloud and this would be a great way: providing coffee and cookies for developers! That it allows them to directly support the features they care about most is a great bonus. Thanks for setting it up, Michael! > ________________________________ > > 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). > _______________________________________________ > User mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
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