On Wednesday 20 September 2006 06:33, Richard Hosking wrote: > I say a small controlling group of private individuals - a major issue > would be governance and how this group is constituted.
How about a collaborative bid-contract system: 1.) a wiki like system where anybody can make a proposal 2.) a voting system where proposals can be voted up or down 3.) once a proposal reaches a certain voter threshold, "bidding" is opened - potential sponsors suggest what implementation would be worth to them (bids are legal commitments, but tied to a completion time frame = if the proposal is fully completed within the specified time frame, the bidder HAS to pay, but not otherwise) 4.) contractors check the bidding process and accept once they think it is worth their while - once a contractor accepts, no other contractors get a go unless the timeframe expires w/o deliverable or the contractor gives up Worked for me for a few problems I had - via the online bounty system e.g. of wxPython - got the work done by others much cheaper and quicker than I could have done it myself. One of the widgets I sponsored (the MultiSplitter) is now part of the mainstream distribution = people maintain it at no cost to me! Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
