I've spawned a new thread as this is a different topic. On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 3:01 PM Mike Saunders < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > On 15.02.22 15:14, Cor Nouws wrote: > > > > Also: at the moment, there is no mechanism in place run bounties by e.g. > > bundling of donations of users. Would we have that, then it could be a > > way to allow donations to steer (a tiny bit of) development. > > Let me just add something here from a marketing / social media / Reddit > etc. perspective. We see a huge amount of requests for new features and > fixes, and our response is usually: "You can get involved and help out" > (with a link to whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org), or "Consider funding a > certified developer" (with a link to the relevant website page). > > A common reply to that is: "Well, I have no technical abilities to help > out, and the certified developer page is long and it's not clear how > much things cost" etc. > > So some kind of bounty system may help to create a more direct link > between users (especially donors) and developers. But then Ilmari has > written about issues with FOSS bounty platforms before: > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2021-January/086741.html > > So I don't know what the solution is, but as someone who's monitoring > our social media channels, Reddit and other things every day, I see a > huge number of feature requests. Many end up on Bugzilla as enhancement > requests too, of course. > Back in the day, one proposal for handling this was to have a seperate tendering programme for community-initiated feature requests, funded with the income from putting LibreOffice in the Mac & Windows App stores. The features to be implemented would be community-sourced, converted from request to proper proposal by a staff member (possibly also funded from the app revenue), validated by ESC and then voted by users The user voting would require sufficient "karma", e.g. from answering on user forums or by virtue of being a Trustee, or possibly by donating to the fund. We had hoped to prefer "new" contributors in the tendering process, and also make it agile enough to not require a specialist sales-person to participate. That's the undetailed synopsis; I think I have a longer description somewhere in a haunted folder if the new Board is interested. Cheers Simon -- *Simon Phipps* *TDF Trustee*
