Luke Faraone schrieb: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Christoph Derndorfer > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > Mmm, personally I'd say that at least a third of Sugar Labs' budget > should go towards actual development. > > All of that traveling and outreach becomes somewhat of a moot point > when the actual platform we're building a community around and > marketing doesn't work as advertised/expected. > > > Paying developers who used to work pro bono can reduce total output, > counterintuitively. > See http://mako.cc/writing/funding_volunteers/funding_volunteers.html > <http://mako.cc/writing/funding_volunteers/funding_volunteers.html>and > http://wiki.mako.cc/Crowding_out. > <http://wiki.mako.cc/Crowding_out>
Quote from http://mako.cc/writing/funding_volunteers/funding_volunteers.html: "Done critically, creatively, and transparently, voluntary free software projects can use money and paid labor to a tremendous benefit that only magnifies their accomplishments." I personally think this is something that Sugar Labs should be aiming for. Also I think it's important to realize there's a difference between paying development and paying developers. As a Sugar user I don't particularly care about who commits the code or writes the documentation as long as the job of fixing bugs and improving and advancing the platform gets done. Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
