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Subject:    Re: [owncloud-user] Bounties for better collaboration
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-08-05 15:05:19
Message-ID: 2332558.uY1dfyOjHP () jos-desktop
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On Tuesday 05 August 2014 16:59:08 Michael Grosser wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> TL;DR:
> Bounties to enable everyone to contribute and push their favourite
> features/issues further are now possible with ownCloud. All while
> enabling contributors to earn a coffee while implementing OpenSource
> Software.
> (https://www.bountysource.com/teams/owncloud)

I think bounties are a great idea. I'm often asked by people how they can 
contribute financially to ownCloud and this would be a great way: providing 
coffee and cookies for developers!

That it allows them to directly support the features they care about most is 
a great bonus.

Thanks for setting it up, Michael!

> ________________________________
> 
> Contributing time and resources into ownCloud was a great decision I
> made a while back. At one point the focus shifted to infrastructure
> (demo.owncloud.org, stats.owncloud.org etc.) and I had to reduce other
> contributions as time is sparse. There are countless features I would
> love to see improved.
> 
> I could study the appropriate language and framework, build those
> features, and work on getting them merged into ownCloud. But all of
> that takes time, which we all know can be hard to come by. Taking time
> away from working on demo.owncloud.org is just not feasible. It's just
> not effective for contributors to do everything. We are working on
> free/open-source software partly so we can collaborate and move
> forward more quickly. This lead me to look for a way to get
> features/bugs fixed quickly. Something that would let me focus on
> providing more than 9.5 million impressions just in 2014 for the
> ownCloud demo and stats services and still support the features I
> love.
> 
> Using the appealing concept of crowdfunding, I would love to see
> Bounties used as a means to get more people engaged and move ownCloud
> further. Bounties (a cash reward for implementing a feature, bug fix
> or anything else) could bring a new way of collaboration. Not
> everybody has time or the skillset to help out ownCloud directly or
> implement a specific feature. This enables them to give something back
> to the community without relying on them providing time and
> experience. For some of us this could even mean to concentrate on
> ownCloud related work to earn our coffee. A few bounties already exist
> for ownCloud, like server-server sync/mirroring
> (https://www.bountysource.com/issues/905996). I personally have
> already been looking through the different issues on Bountysource
> (https://www.bountysource.com/teams/owncloud/issues) to support the
> features I care about.
> 
> With the help of Jos you now can contribute to the ownCloud team on
> Bountysource (https://www.bountysource.com/teams/owncloud) directly,
> which will fund the most requested and active issues or just push your
> favourite feature forward. Or just look through all issues
> (https://www.bountysource.com/teams/owncloud/issues).
> 
> Cheers
> Michael (scalability-junk, stp-ip)
> 
> PS:
> The additional time I get from collaborating is already used to work
> on new demo infrastructure "Single user instances"
> (https://www.bountysource.com/issues/3463043) and "Developer/unstable
> demo version" (https://www.bountysource.com/issues/3463145).
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