Re: Funding - Specifically identifying allocations

[Francesco Potorti`]

>My other idea was the following:
>
>Alice wants a new features. So, she puts an ad offering a bounty (in the
>wiki?  in a dedicated web?).
>
>Bob reads the ad and thinks that he could do it.
>
>Bob contacts Alice and they negotiate the conditions of the agreement.
>
>Bob writes the new code. Alice gets the code, pays Bob and donates it to
>the Octave project.
>
>After that, Bob could put an ad offering his services as Octave hacker.

I like this ideas, or something similar.  Yes, if you want a contract
guaranteeing complete trackability and deliverables, you have to pay
some administrative overhead.  Isn't there a way, on the lines of what
Javier suggests, that allows informal funding for a particular project
(that is, no guarantees)?

And yes, given the numbers that John posted (less than 1% funded by
donations) it would be reasonable to wonder if setting up such a
mechanisms is worth at all.  It would be worth, it it can bring more
funding.

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