What the Google Summer of Code showed me, is that a relatively small amount of money has caused a great deal of stimulation on getting everyone discussing new ideas that other requests for new ideas seem to have failed to do.
It follows on that maybe Novell could a couple of times a year offer a bounty for SUSE Linux projects, and instead of just students leave it open to all developers. We would all discuss and create a list of projects and developers sign up for the bounty. Probably with partial payment on certain project milestones. Ubuntu has a bounty system and indeed last year's Google Summer of Code projects were just included in the existing system of bounties https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BreezyBounties see the table at the bottom for a list of bounty projects. Peter "Pflodo" Flodin
