my $0.02
Don't get me wrong, bounties can be great motivators, especially
around key bugs or major refactoring jobs etc. I think the Google
Summer of Code is a great example of a successful bounty program.
Other systems that have worked well are sometimes the completely
independent 'I'll buy a
Richard Stallman wrote:
I think that one requisite of a good board member is a visible
commitment to the goal of a world in which software is free.
I think the Gnome Foundation could make heavier emphasis on free and
open data / file formats too, as a marketing tool (and mission statement
I'm sure alot of us myself included would like to spend more time working on
free software if we could only afford it...
I guess my original suggestion for a more formal bounty system would be
doomed to fail (too complicated, not in the free spirit) - but perhaps
there could be an lgo page
Hi,
Le jeudi 08 novembre 2007, à 08:45 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak a écrit :
Has http://live.gnome.org/Academic gotten stuck?
The wiki page, yes, but not the idea :-)
I'm working with a French professor doing a computer science course and
using GNOME as a basis for the projects. Also,
Posting 'a beer at
next Guadec for whoever fixes bug #7' is informal enough that I think
we avoid the main issue which is the alienation of volunteers,
however, it doesn't really address the big issue which is how can
users donate and drive development of a feature they desire?
I'm more
Has http://live.gnome.org/Academic gotten stuck?
Has the promised mailing list happened?
Can I help?
The thread on this list seemed to die out in August with no further action.
- Mike
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Fernando San Martín Woerner wrote:
I'm working with a French professor doing a computer science course and
using GNOME as a basis for the projects. Also, David Bolter put me in
contact with a professor who's interested in having students do some
GNOME-related projects. There's also a group of
On Nov 8, 2007 6:38 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sure alot of us myself included would like to spend more time working on
free software if we could only afford it...
Always a hearty second to that :)
I guess my original suggestion for a more formal bounty system
Jeff Waugh wrote:
There were some problems creating mailing lists around that time. I'll do it
for you immediately.
Thanks Jeff! The new list is available here:
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/academia-list
- Mike
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On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 15:42 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
I'm working with a French professor doing a computer science course and
using GNOME as a basis for the projects. Also, David Bolter put me in
contact with a professor who's interested in having students do some
GNOME-related projects.
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 08:02 -0200, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
Interesting way of putting it, we wouldnt ever want patches to be rushed
in because of cash incentives, this is indeed risky - on the other hand I dont
see why there shouldnt be some external distributed firm of developers
On Nov 8, 2007 8:29 AM, Liam R E Quin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 11:53 +0100, Johannes Schmid wrote:
[...]
Just a short note on the success of bounties. The Anjuta Project
(www.anjuta.org/tasks, list is not completely up-to-date) put bounties
of overall about 4000$ in
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 11:53 +0100, Johannes Schmid wrote:
[...]
Just a short note on the success of bounties. The Anjuta Project
(www.anjuta.org/tasks, list is not completely up-to-date) put bounties
of overall about 4000$ in place about two years ago. Only about half of
those have been worked
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 10:29 -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote:
Gnome Miles. :)
Already there. Called Bugzilla points :).
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Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little
Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
-- Benjamin
On 11/8/07, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 8, 2007 7:44 PM, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
apologies for the impression I may have
created about the current board.
No problem, Luis. I don't think the board members got bad feelings for
your constructive and rather justified
Le jeudi 08 novembre 2007, à 20:31 +0100, Philip Van Hoof a écrit :
Is somebody this year taking care of the GNOME developer room at FOSDEM?
I think this year you have to request one. Let's not forget to do
that :) (has somebody done this already?)
Well, we had to request one every year in
On Nov 8, 2007 12:07 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Posting 'a beer at
next Guadec for whoever fixes bug #7' is informal enough that I think
we avoid the main issue which is the alienation of volunteers,
however, it doesn't really address the big issue which is how
On Nov 6, 2007 7:26 PM, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/6/07, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess it's no surprise that money and free/open software have a
delicate relationship...
I have been putting it in this way:
The connection between free software
Is somebody this year taking care of the GNOME developer room at FOSDEM?
I think this year you have to request one. Let's not forget to do
that :) (has somebody done this already?)
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Philip Van Hoof, freelance software developer
home: me at pvanhoof dot be
gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org
I've seen projects like Plone do that... it's clearly an open source
project, but they list quite a few companies that can provide for-pay
support.
What's more significant for our purposes is that Plone is a free
software package. That makes it relevant for comparison.
Hi,
Luis Villa wrote:
Since March of this year, I've been trying to help out on a variety of
miscellaneous Foundation-related legal projects- some important, some
not so much. All of these projects, for various reasons, stalled. When
I came back up to speed, I tried to revive them, but got
Johannes Schmid wrote:
Do you remeber those people from GUADEC with Telepathy T-Shirt. There
was something on it like:
I spend my whole free time hacking on Telepathy and all I got was this
T-Shirt.
That was at least funny!
And original to boot!
:)
Dave.
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