Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising "Bugging for Dollars" (request for comment form WMF)

Let me rephrase my suggestion of a bounty board. What users would do is offer to donate a certain sum to the WMF if a certain feature is done. Users would be able to up the pool for a certain item. Everyone is a winner. ----- Original Message ---- From: Domas Mituzas <midom.lists(a)gmail.com> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 6:49:12 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising "Bugging for Dollars" (request for comment form WMF) Hi! Well, foundation doesn't really _own_ mediawiki, nor its development - it is GPL project, and no external contributors have their rights assigned. It has few major committers who do great work on mediawiki to support the live sites. Who would operate that pool? Would that pool be used to pay for WMF developers, or for 3rd party contributors only? Should WMF sponsor MW development in any way, if there is separate dev pool, etc :) And of course, we can put "support mediawiki development by donating to wikimedia foundation" links everywhere. actually, every time someone wants to donate for mediawiki help/development/.. we already did redirect to foundation. Sometimes people go with "But I want to thank you directly guys", and get the answer "So donate to WMF" :) Volunteer developers do it because it provides value to WMF anyway. It is WMF role to decide if it wants to pay back in any way. -- Domas Mituzas -- http://dammit.lt/ -- [[user:midom]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs