Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 15:14:21 +0100 From: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Cc: nik@iii.co.uk, Steve Logue <slogue@acm.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <199803041414.PAA11493@bowtie.nl> In-Reply-To: jak's message of Wed, 04 Mar 1998 13:05:32 %2B0000. <350150dc.2887681@mail.cetlink.net>
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> On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:41:49 +0000, nik@iii.co.uk wrote: > > >> How about one vote for every $250 donated? A donor of $750 would have > >> three votes. Design a ballot with suggested projects, and vote on > >> your favorite 10 in order of preference. The top vote getters become > >> funded. > > >Will not work. Developers (and other contributors) work on a particular > >facet of FreeBSD for (as far as I can tell) one of two reasons. > > > > 1. They want to. > > > > 2. They are employed specifically to do that. > > > >If a developer wants to work on (for example) 'syscons' and all the > >voters would rather they spent more time on 'networking', the developer > >can cheerfully ignore all the votes, and do what they want anyway. > > Developers who want to choose their own projects can continue working > pro bono. But developers who want to get paid for the work should be > willing to work under the donors direction. > > That's the way it works in the real world. I don't know why some of > you are having such a hard time with this idea. > I would agree with this, people will be much more inclined to donate if they get a say what's to happen with this money. That is: they don't say what developers should do in their free time and what to hack on, but what developers that will be hired with the donated money will work on. But I don't think the amount of influence of your vote should be related to the amount of money donated. This ofcourse gives rise to a lot of problems like people sending in n donations of $10 to get n votes, but I guess you could draw up rules for that. Perhaps there should be two possibilities: 1. Donate money and you trust the core group to do the sensible thing. 2. Donate money and vote for what happens with it. Regards, Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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