Scott, Don't worry, it wasn't taken in the wrong way at all (at least by me), and is in fact very generous and does a lot to increase the chances that this will actually get developed.
My comments were mostly me thinking out loud about what this involves and what is needed to get it started, and I'm not really sure how that will work out. The two main options I mentioned there were: 1. design the app, review and refine, taskify for implementation, then get bounties for specific tasks to help move it along 2. don't do anything preliminary, just have people create tasks and bid on them and solicit bounties; the tasks would include designs or partial designs with an estimate of how long to finish the design and implement whatever is included in the task In either case the people offering the bounty would be in the unfortunate position of having to deal with a dozen (at least) hungry community members fighting for each task to get the bounty on it, critiquing the work done (which might be a good thing as long as designers, developers, and bounty raisers all stick with it through the ugly parts). Again what I really don't know is how to get this whole thing boot-strapped. I suppose anyone could pop up and start writing up tasks that have bids in them, and then those offering bounty can choose which tasks they want to sponsor. For a more organized approach it might require those offering bounty to take some initiative and direct whatever they think would lead to the best result. -David On Mar 22, 2010, at 3:58 PM, ScottA wrote: > > I was in no way implying that $5000 or $10000 was what the project or your > time was worth and I didn’t believe that you were going to be person working > on this nor did I have any illusion that this was just going to appear in > short order. I was merely trying to add my support in the limited way that I > could to something that would have benefited me and other smaller > businesses. I respect what you guys do, the time you commit to the project > and I hope that my comments\enthusiasm were not taken in the wrong way. > Thanks. > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/EZBiz-tp1589812p1678377.html > Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
