[Foundation-l] Fundraising "Bugging for Dollars"

[Screamer]

This is reasonable.  A bounty board, with the express note that all 
donations are irevocable donations to the foundation, and earmarked for 
development.  (the foundation can of course return earmarked donations 
if they can't/won't use them)  The bug with the highest donation 
percentage in a week, gets the work, unless it is unworkable or requires 
too much time.  Note that I don't believe we should be doing this on 
bugs, but can do this on a feature request (subset of bug). 


./scream

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Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
> How about we build a bounty board into Bugzilla?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 3:47:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising "Bugging for Dollars"
>
> Hoi,
> This is only true when the money is spend on hardware. When you want to pay
> to get a particular problem fixed you cannot influence this. In the mean
> times some of the problems are debilitating to the extend that you cannot do
> a thing. When you have the option to pay someone to do what needs doing, it
> would be often a good thing. It allows you to influence priorities. The only
> thing needed from a WMF point of view that the work is done by someone
> trusted.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Screamer wrote:
>>     
>>> This seems very reasonable.  One can make restricted donations for a
>>> purpose only.  And it can be made known, that such a donation is for the
>>> restricted purpose of equipment purchase and upkeep, bandwidth, and or
>>> network staff.
>>>       
>> Looks like an excellent way to generate useless extra bookkeeping in
>> maintaining tainted accounts.  If we have $1,000,000 budgeted for
>> equipment anyway, and we have $50,000 designated for equipment by
>> donors, then we just use that $50,000 as designated, and add $950,000
>> from general revenue.  It all comes to the same thing except for the
>> extra bookkeeping.  If a donor cuts it too fine, and starts insisting on
>> specific types of equipment as a condition for his donation, it's best
>> to just send the money back, or better still tear up the cheque and put
>> it in the trash.
>>
>> Ec
>>
>>
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