Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

Darryl L. Pierce mcpierce at gmail.com
Wed Jul 24 12:49:37 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:37:09PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 07/24/2013 12:15 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:50:11AM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> ><snip>
> >>Obvious we cannot have crowd funding for every moving part in Fedora
> >>that would just be ludicrous so we need to apply that concept upon
> >>the entire project, as in Fedora would be just a one crowd founded
> >>project.
> ><snip>
> >
> >The first issue that comes to mind (for me) is "who cuts the checks"?
> >IOW, who is going to be the person responsible for the money itself, and
> >who has oversight to ensure money's being properly managed and not
> >siphoned off?
> 
> We would need to form a financial sig that handles that.

Are these people going to be paid for their efforts, since it's
completely non-technical?

I'm a board member for my kids' summer swim league. And our treasurer
has to deal with writing checks for things like buying bulk swim caps,
tshirts, meet supplies, reimbursing people for purchases made for the
team, etc. And for 8 weeks of her life that's a lot to do.

To then ask someone to do the same all year round as a volunteer for
a _much_ larger group is probably not going to happen. 
 
> >Who decides how much gets paid for a bug bounty?
> 
> Well no one these again are donations

So the person donating is going to pay it directly to the person who
fixed the bug?

> >What do we do if we have no funds? Do we want bug fixes to become a paid
> >thing, and wouldn't that be a disinsentive if we were to have no money?
> 
> These are donation not fixed incomes per bug fix so things would
> remain as they already are.

Well, not really since we don't have a bug bounty in place now. ;) But
if I follow what you're suggesting, then some one or group will make a
payment to the person who provides patch(es) to fix a bug? If so, then
why involve Fedora at all in the transaction?
 
> >What if upstream introduces bugs so they can then get paid to fix them?
> 
> You wont be paid to fix each bug however donation could be made to
> set bounty on bugs/rfe/designs as in I as a donator want or need
> #123456 to be fixed and I donation $1000 to make that happen other
> could pile on to that amount until the bug eventually gets fix then
> the person or the team that does so collects that bounty.

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Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce at gmail.com>
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