$2,500 a month can buy a good programmer in some very developed nations. I contracted an electrical engineer for $2,000 a month, who did outstanding wireless product design and development.
If you were to do a bounty system like what was described, you would have to build an escrow system similar to what is used in Elance and others, so that the money is deposited and held in escrow, the work is done in stages with payments out of the escrow account to the developers in stages as milestones are met. It would seem that a system like that would be the responsibility of SipFoundry to develop if it made sense, and then you would have multiple parties contributing to the project much like other open source projects. For instance, with Wolf no longer an Avaya employee (never was I think, no longer Nortel), and not saying he is a candidate for this type of work, but someone of his background on the project, and his expertise in development, could be a candidate to develop an ACD that integrates smoothly into the current sipXecs project. Having someone like that paid out of a bounty system may be a first step into gaining some independence on the project from everything being Avaya based. Maybe this is a good time for SipFoundry to take an inventory of what is good for developing into the product, correlate that to what Avaya is planning on working on, and develop a list of projects for people to put a bounty into for development of funding of some of these one off features. With the current licensing of the product, everyone, including Avaya could potentially benefit from some planning of this type. Today, I find the warts on the product to be superficial on what I use. I have not used or recommended the ACD however, so I don't want to minimize the concerns of others in that area. All in all, it works, it's reliable as a PBX. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Lawrence Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 11:55 AM To: Matt White Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [sipx-users] Cluster - Number of Servers? On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 09:58 -0400, Matt White wrote: > I've often thought we should get a place on the wiki for feature > bounties. Its a very popular thing to do in the asterisk world if you > feel a feature is important....pony up some money. I'm not familiar with what asterisk does specifically, but it seems to me that before _I'd_ want to invest my time (assuming that my time was mine to invest, which in this case it is not), I'd want more assurance that there was actually money than text that someone put on a wiki page. > I understand that with the bulk of development being done by Avaya > employee's a bounty is a bit like moonlighting. For those of us that work for Avaya it would be substantially worse than moonlighting. > However, some of the features like ACD are really about moving to a > freeswitch backend, which could mean a larger development base. And if someone out there wants to do the work, I'd be delighted to hear about it and provide whatever information they need. > I could right now offer at a least $1000 bounty for someone to get a > decent freeswitch based ACD(or fix the current ACD but it sounds like > thats a dead end), into the main tree. That's a fine stake in the ground, and your offer is in the archive :-), but you understand that what you're offering is perhaps a week or at most two of programmer time at fair market rates? That's not much of an ACD. Understand... what the community is getting for no $ (not quite free, as I've expressed elsewhere) is the result of many _millions_ of dollars of developer time. Yes, it's missing some things and has some warts, but those things cost real money to build and fix. If you can find someone to do them for $1K... more power to you - we'll take the output if it's good. _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
