Re: Sponsored Contributions

Agreed. I've dropped the idea. On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: > 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. >