Re: [Foundation-l] Funding for the newly elected Board Members
Daniel Mayer <maveric149-/[email protected]> Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:05:38 -0700 (PDT)
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--- epzachte-/NLkJaSkS4VmR6Xm/[email protected] wrote: > Doiny any serious programming for $100 is almost equivalent to doing it for > free. What incentive would that be? > > If we would pay serious money for any software activity our current cash > reserves would be gone in no time. > At the moment developers are rewarded with an occasional 'thank you'. > Singling out tasks that are important > enough to pay a token sum, would only muddy the waters. Why not just provide direct links to the PayPal accounts of every active developer who has contributed x amount of code on the Foundation's fundraising page? Kinda like a tip jar. I was planning on asking the developers about this soon anyway. And/or we could also have a separate software development PayPal account that we could offer bounties from (the current PayPal account would be for general fund expenses - mostly server related). On top of that, we could have a legal defense fund account as well. -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail