Can I ask that a percentage of the income, given to specific people, goes into a common pot, either to help support Illumos development directly, or to pay for tickets/marketing for conventions or likewise.
just my 2c. Jon On 29 January 2013 15:32, Reginald Beardsley <[email protected]> wrote: > How about something along the lines of the following: > > List active developers on the website for OI along w/ what they are working > on. > > If you want to fund that person's work, you sign up to provide a certain > amount which is divided into equal allotments for each month remaining in the > calendar year. Your choice of how much. > > The amounts currently committed for the calendar year per developer are shown > so that people can make intelligent choices of where to commit funds. Beyond > a certain point more money to one developer will not make the work go faster. > It effectively "crowdsources" hiring and pay raises. > > For a sensible person to work full time on OI they need some sense of > stability and predictability. Martin's doing wonderful stuff, but I don't > think he's being sensible. But sometimes being sensible conflicts w/ major > achievement. > > There needs to be a way to keep the transaction costs down. The Paypal skim > gets pretty hefty for a small monthly payment. If Paypal would be willing to > take a single payment and split it into multiple equal payments with only a > single transaction charge it would be pretty easy to set this up. Does > anyone deal w/ Paypal enough to know if they'd do this? > > The idea being to make it possible for an individual to work on OI as they > would a regular contract job. There's staggeringly high unemployment > worldwide and in Europe especially. That ought to get us some good talent at > bargain rates if we can just work out a viable payment model. > > Have Fun! > Reg > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
