From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2008-03-10T23:02:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Offering to work directly for the Ruby community!

Gregory,

Just had a thought. This whole idea might generate more heat if it were 
bigger - I'd like to see a place where problems and people could meet, 
and the interested community could register and vote, to express their 
interest. This would involve much more than one programmer, of course, 
but that's part of what would drive interest of the community in 
general. The focus would probably end up being the more difficult, 
unsolved, high-value problems.

This is probably too idealized, but I like the concept, and it could 
serve us all well. It would embody a key notion: pro bono work can only 
get so much done, after that, people have to get paid, somehow.

t.

Gregory Brown wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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