SteveC wrote:
On 18 Mar 2008, at 17:03, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
Anyone have any thoughts on
whether it would fly?
It might but I fear that the coding community would be adversely
affected to a point where people don't work unless paid, or free
time programmers get shot down for
SteveC wrote:
Anselm suggested that it might be good for us to sponsor X-Prize[1]
type things within OSM. Some example might be a prize for getting
routing working on the main site, getting name finder up again, making
potlatch use the main API and so on. Anyone have any thoughts on
Gervase Markham wrote:
Paying bounties or other rewards within a volunteer project is a large
can of worms. Some projects manage it, others go down in flames. Apache
has refused to pay _anyone_ for years for this reason, although I think
now they are getting around to employing a sysadmin
Hi,
But there are a few really big ones. These are reliant on our few
developers being able to take a break from fire-fighting, which we're
doing a lot of the time, and diving into them. It's great when this
happens
Maybe it would be worthwile to try to get more capable people on
board,
Hi,
Anyone have any thoughts on
whether it would fly?
It might but I fear that the coding community would be adversely
affected to a point where people don't work unless paid, or free
time programmers get shot down for taking away cash from others,
whatever. Currently if someone says
On 18 Mar 2008, at 17:03, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
Anyone have any thoughts on
whether it would fly?
It might but I fear that the coding community would be adversely
affected to a point where people don't work unless paid, or free
time programmers get shot down for taking away cash
Hi,
are there examples of where this has happened in other projects?
None that I know of. There's some discourse about this online, good
starting point is
http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/06/18/crowding-out-of-intrinsic-motivations-aka-the-bounty-problem/
but it's all rather inconclusive and
Where the x-prize approach seems to have worked is in creating press
and awareness, bringing new participants to the table, leveling the
field. It seems to work in particular as a complement to government
bureaucracies which while well funded just seem unable to innovate.
It may also be best for
SteveC wrote:
On 18 Mar 2008, at 17:03, Frederik Ramm wrote:
I fear that the coding community would be adversely
affected to a point where people don't work unless paid, or free
time programmers get shot down for taking away cash from others,
whatever.
are there examples of where this
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