On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 00:04, Christoph Derndorfer <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 17.05.2010 23:50, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:43:19PM -0500, David Farning wrote: >>> One consideration is that these deployment specific issues are often >>> boring -- stuff like bug fixes. As such we are paying the developers >>> the going rate rate for developers in their country or region. This >>> brings three advantages: >>> 1. The deployment issues are fixed. >>> 2. These fixes are pushed upstream for inclusion into Sugar. >>> 3. There is a growing pool of skilled developers, with knowledge of >>> how to work with the Sugar community, co-located with deployment >> >> Another (quite related) consideration is the risk of discouraging >> similar volunteer efforts. This brings (at least) two disadvantages: >> 1. Increasing the gap between developers and users. >> 2. Encumbering the project with (more) discrete communiction. > > Luke raised similar concerns during the "Sugar Labs Budget" discussion > last April and I still stick to my reply from back then > (http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-April/005028.html): > > 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.
We certainly have lots of projects on which to look for inspiration in this aspect, look forward to discuss this in the community team meetings. Regards, Tomeu > Christoph > > -- > Christoph Derndorfer > co-editor, 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 > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
