Re: Sponsored Contributions

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > Someone raised a half joke about if we raised some money via kickstarter > that after 2 days we would have the funds needed to have someone work on > this constantly. > > It's actually not a bad idea and would be the same thing as the GSoC that > we run. > > We could make it work as long as we are not directly involved in the > kickstarter campaign but give someone else the green light to raise funds > and have design/frontend professionals work on it. > > We don't have to be involved with it, we're just on the recipient end of > commits. > > What's people's thoughts on this? That it's a horrible idea that should never be seriously considered. No offense meant to anyone involved in the original discussion, but it wouldn't be a good idea for us --- or, really, any other completely open project. The GSoC bit is already pushing the boundaries, but at the least is only open to students, and provides some legitimate educational value and experience, as opposed to turning an open source project into a job for an individual or very small group. All that would do is discourage others from volunteering.