Re: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Bounty Board

Hello Dennis,

Le 19.01.2013 23:27, Dennis Roczek a écrit :
> Am 19.01.2013 20:56, schrieb Paolo Debortoli:
> > 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).
>
> That sounds also very interesting. The Wikimedia Foundation has their
> hands in many universities and is helping some students to get their
> thesis working. (e.g. with special rights like the researcher right 
> to
> increase the API limit from 50 to 500) I guess setting up a page with
> tasks and a contact person similar to the Google of Summer Code is
> easily achieved - although for that kind of stuff a simple Wiki page 
> is
> enough.
>
> I see the need and I understand that there are limited resources, but 
> I
> still think that a easy and handy formular and overview page would 
> some
> newly / potential developers get into the project simply because they
> want to earn some additional money.

Thanks for your email and your idea. Indeed, we should be working on 
such a system, although at first it would be purely web based to start 
with a simple process to start the idea.
Now, I may perhaps reduce the question to one particular aspect, but 
I'm wondering what this would entail in terms of the financial process.
- several bugs or features get selected, voted on and one of them 
emerged.
- this feature or bug has to be somewhat estimated (perhaps by our 
Engineering Steering Committee) in terms of effort, and therefore in 
terms of reward.
- then somebody or a team picks up the task and works on it until 
completion
- if properly achieved it gets the reward.

Is that what you had in mind? (Back to the 4.0 release preparations for 
me now...)

Best,

Charles.

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