> [email protected] wrote: >>> Actually no, we are -not- trying to get work done on a contract basis. >>> If we were we would set goals and deadlines for people, and the money >>> we >>> gave people would be payment for services. >>> >>> We are simply giving people grants that they can use to do *whatever >>> they want* with the only stipulation being that it is Wesnoth-related. >>> >>> >>> >> >> The things that strikes me about this is: what do Wesnoth as a project >> gain? >> >> People work on stuff that is fun anyway, for free. >> > See this is the core point of the grant programme: the idea is NOT to > give people an "incentive" to work on Wesnoth. We clearly have a lot of > people who are excited to work on Wesnoth for free already. > > The idea is that if you are someone who is working on Wesnoth for free, > and doing a great job, but can only work on Wesnoth part time because > you have to get a job, we want enable you to work on Wesnoth full time > by paying you the equivalent of what your job would pay you. > > What Wesnoth gains from this is that someone who was previously only > working on Wesnoth part time -- and doing a great job of it -- now gets > to work on Wesnoth full time. The productivity gain from being able to > put so much focus on a project you love is large. > > THAT is the point of the grants programme, and what we want to accomplish. > > David >
I don't see that happening, but good luck. Hogne _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
