Re: [maemo-developers] bounty program?

2007-01-13 Thread Kees Jongenburger
This kind of plan wouldn't raise priority on a specific task the way that traditional incentive programs aspire to (and often fail to anyway), but it would reward active development on the project space in general. It also removes the demeaning aspect of traditional incentives ("I'll give you $4

Re: [maemo-developers] bounty program?

2007-01-11 Thread Kees Jongenburger
> On 1/11/07, Andrew Flegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Looking around for off-the-sh> > http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/06/18/crowding-out-of-intrinsic-motivations-aka-the-bounty-problem/ I don't know that this was the exact problem. Ours wasn't analysed quite so heavily, but it semeed that[0]:

Re: [maemo-developers] bounty program?

2007-01-11 Thread Levi Bard
On 1/11/07, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not that I'm against or in favour of bounties (depends on the context and particular circumstances, I guess) but... On 1/11/07, Andrew Flegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking around for off-the-shelf software we could customise shows up > GNOME

Re: Re: [maemo-developers] bounty program?

2007-01-11 Thread Ferenc Szekely
Hello, On 1/11/07, Andrew Flegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/11/07, Mathias Uebelacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you host a project in the maemo garage you can activte a bounty > plugin. Interesting. Something for Ferenc to investigate? Hmm, sounds good :) It's kind of backwards,

Re: [maemo-developers] bounty program?

2007-01-11 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:45:37AM +0100, ext Quim Gil wrote: > Not that I'm against or in favour of bounties (depends on the context > and particular circumstances, I guess) but... Indeed, conceptually it seems okay, but it seems that very limited, targeted, bounties should be offered, instead of

Re: [maemo-developers] bounty program?

2007-01-11 Thread Andrew Flegg
On 1/11/07, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not that I'm against or in favour of bounties (depends on the context and particular circumstances, I guess) but... Agreed. [http://www.gnome.org/bounties/] This programme was discontinued, it's worth knowing why. [snip] http://tieguy.org/b

Re: [maemo-developers] bounty program?

2007-01-11 Thread Quim Gil
Not that I'm against or in favour of bounties (depends on the context and particular circumstances, I guess) but... On 1/11/07, Andrew Flegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looking around for off-the-shelf software we could customise shows up GNOME's Bounties programme (the bounties are vetted by co

Re: Re: [maemo-developers] bounty program?

2007-01-11 Thread Andrew Flegg
On 1/11/07, Mathias Uebelacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you host a project in the maemo garage you can activte a bounty plugin. Interesting. Something for Ferenc to investigate? It's kind of backwards, though as often the bounty will be for a project to be created (e.g. Kees' gcompriz bo

Aw: Re: [maemo-developers] bounty program?

2007-01-11 Thread Mathias Uebelacker
If you host a project in the maemo garage you can activte a bounty plugin. - Ursprüngliche Mitteilung - Von: Andrew Flegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Kees Jongenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Gesendet: Do., 11. Jan. 2007 10:07:21 CET Betreff: Re: [maem

Re: [maemo-developers] bounty program?

2007-01-11 Thread Andrew Flegg
On 1/11/07, Kees Jongenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been looking at the responses to the Developer Program Application with great interests. It looks like people are ready to invest time in maemo if they get rewarded. I enjoy spending time developing but I would also be ready to pay

[maemo-developers] bounty program?

2007-01-10 Thread Kees Jongenburger
Hello I have been looking at the responses to the Developer Program Application with great interests. It looks like people are ready to invest time in maemo if they get rewarded. I enjoy spending time developing but I would also be ready to pay bounties if some piece of software can be developed