Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Bounty Board

Il 19/01/2013 19:54, Dennis Roczek ha scritto:
> Hello mailinglist!
> this is my first here, so bear with me if I'm doing something wrong. I
> was writing with Florian Effenberger and he wanted me to post here my idea.
>
> I'm rather active at the English Wikipedia and they have there a so
> called 'Bounty Board'. [1]
>
> On that wikipage everybody is able to post his wish which article should
> be improved to a certain
> quality level or that an article is created for a reward. The rewards
> look different. The most chosed rewards are:
>
> * a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation (which is the foundation behind
> Wikipedia),
> * a 'donation' to the improver,
> * an improvement to any other article (often bounded to a genre).

it's nice, yes.  some people have been talking until now about some 
ideas proposed such as a libreoffice 'brainstorming'  or  'easy hack'    
(done on website or on google pages or facebbok), such as done by AOO or 
the ubuntu community. Many things are feasible; maybe the main problem 
is finding a number of people interested in.

> I think this system would also work for LibreOffice. I know that at
> least some users would pay money if a particular bug is resolved or any
> wished improvements are made.

it's possible, yes, but I am not sure. for sure it would increase 
partecipation. rewards could be made in different ways (eg a prize for 
the most voted or innovative improvements).  another possible option 
could be something like (involving universities) giving students prizes 
for dissertations or thesis one the topics needed by the foundation 
(marketing subjects or technical solutions).

> The solution to offer such 'bounties' at the English Wikipedia was
> created by other English contributors, so the technical solution is
> rather bad, but with a small bunch of PHP code this could be rather a
> great board: All is need is a small table in a database.
>
> Moreover I thought this could be added to as an extension to the bug
> submission wizard which has nearly all relevant parts.
>
> Any thoughts? I heard there were already two attempts (before LO
> existed), but failed. I think we could do it better!
>
> Regards,
> Dennis Roczek
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bounty_board


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