I think that the creation of a Gnome-user-foundation would help at getting user requests more visible. The structure would be that you paid some thing like 30$ or more annually and for that you would get to vote for enhancement bugs that would go in to a bounty system. The requirement for payment, all or part, would be that the bug was integrated into Gnome. You could also submit a bug that would then be evaluated and processed by the user-foundation, with examples and so on, and developers could revue the bugs and either say that they are going to implement them or that this is a planed feature or this could never be integrated into Gnome.
Some part of that money would also automatically run to the gnome-foundation. This would solve most of the perceived problems with the current development model. Here users would pay a tiny amount to be better heard, and developer would have an influence what kind of enhancement go though, and the would get to see code behind ideas and nobody would be forcing them to work in there free time for these enhancements. Also this would be great to get some money at the community level to Gnome. The gnome-user-foundation members could also get a [EMAIL PROTECTED], there would be a cool website, easy payment system. Forum and/or a maillist. There could be community driven promotions and so on. There would be a cap on the highest amount of something like 1000$ and then less for runner-ups. Olafur Arason Ps isn't this the right place to send these kind of requests. PPs This idea is the collection of different solution about dealing with an ever increasing number of users. And the discussing about that on gnome-desktop-devel. Also some people have in the past expressed a will to have a money voting system on bugzilla, but this idea would be better for user because this would be visual and you don't have to know about bugzilla or anything like that. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
