From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-03-10T16:15:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Offering to work directly for the Ruby community!

On Mar 10, 2:06 am, Tom Cloyd <tomcl...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Exactly - that's the idea: "I'll do the following for $XX." THEN people
> know what they're buying into, and that's much more inviting than simply
> putting money on the table for....for... what?? People will respond to
> specifics best, I think.

The only issue is that most of the projects I've targeted are as James
mentioned, large scale.  So there is a bit of a commitment on my end,
as I'll need to be sure I can pay rent for the amount of time I'm
taking off.  That having been said, I've listed project ideas here:

http://rubymendicant.wikidot.com/project-ideas

I'm going to keep this list relatively small and 'general community
centric' in the hopes that anyone who donates, even if they prefer one
project over the other, would be happy seeing most or any of these get
worked on.  Those who have concerns about that, can catch up on the
mailing list I've started and help me weed out ideas that aren't
generally useful enough.

Reverse bounties work pretty good for projects of small to mid-size
scale, but I'm really targeting the things that seem to never get done
in an organized fashion.  This is of course, an experiment, but I hope
it's one that works out well.