Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 01:12, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> wrote:
>> Do you have concrete suggestions for her on how it should be working?
>
> I know that the FreeBSD community has experimented with paid development
> for FreeBSD in the past; the first such attempt was done by Poul-Henning
> Kamp[1]. AIUI, the model they have used goes something like this:
>
> - Some FreeBSD developer decides to do sponsored development. This
> developer announces that fact, states the areas that the sponsored
> development will be about, an amount of money that would be required
> for the plan to go through, and asks for sponsorship pledges.
> - People with an interest in the things this developer intends work on
> pledge monies. There have been people who pledged as little as one
> euro, and companies who pledged several tens of thousands.
> - If the amount of community pledges seem reasonable enough and, in the
> judgement of the people in charge of the FreeBSD foundation (which
> holds monies in trust for FreeBSD), the cause is worth it, then monies
> may be pledged to the cause by the foundation as well.
This is so damn good an idea! Debian would do well by being flexible
enough to explore this sort of thing.
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