On 2015-03-04 3:05 PM, W. Trevor King wrote:
I'm sure that if you start paying instructors, you will find more interested instructors. This is sort of what Matt was suggesting [2].
This is something that open source orgs like Mozilla have struggled with for years: if you start paying some people, will others stop volunteering? The answer seems to be "it depends". When you first go from all-unpaid to a mix of paid and unpaid, some of those who aren't being paid leave (either because they're not being paid, or because they don't think the organization should be paying anyone). Once you're in that state, though, newcomers take it as given, and as long as the hiring process is seen as fair, it seems to work OK.
Maybe we just need a formal method for connecting interested hosts with interested instructors, and letting them carry out these negotations?
That's an intriguing idea - organizations like the Python Software Foundation run a job board, and something like this would be a natural analog. With that said, I think we have too many balls in the air to tackle it in the next few months, but I'd be keen to revisit then.
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