The Wikimedia board would be willing to make a trial of the developer
payment option upon a task : membership.
We chose this task because it is not specifically a wikipedia (or other
projects) task, but one primarily interesting the foundation.
We also chose it because basically no previous work as been done by
anyone yet on it.
We finally chose this task, because we would like membership to be set
before 2005.
I thought of describing the task... and after reading Tim Starling mail
this morning, I decided not to go very far in details :-)
Roughly, the goal is
* to add to preferences a mention of default joining the foundation when
creating an account, and adding a link to an opt-out option
* set a form to join as a contributing member. The paiement itself
should be multilingual, include several different amounts, and allow the
person to enter a preference for use of part of the fee. Generate a tax
receipt for us contributors (desactivated for now).
* Find a solution to add as contributing members, editors who paid fees
in a local chapter.
* store all data about the member as "confidential" data (another db or
encryption). Make it available automatically for voting.
* Generate an access and interface of some sort, so that someone can
consult/manage the list of members.
I may forget points of course. Comments welcome :-)
Since we have little idea of how long this would take, I think it is
best that those interested just join the discussion, and after
clarification of the task, declare interest for a certain amount (or for
nothing). Developer committee is welcome to participate and comment as well.
Cheers