[Foundation-l] Chapter-selected Board seats - brainstorming

[David Gerard]

2008/5/1 Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:12 PM,  <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:

>  >  Paid editing? Would the community go for that?

>  Open source software groups have been supplying funding and grants to
>  volunteer developers for a long time. A chapter could post a bounty
>  for a particular task that it wants to see completed: a page/article
>  being written, a set of pictures taken, some source documents
>  faithfully uploaded, etc. Applicants write proposals, complete the
>  task to a prescribed standard of quality within a certain time frame,
>  and collect the bounty.


We've had more than a few cases of organisations subsidising editors;
generally to fill out an area, rather than to slant coverage. Funding
better coverage of a subject seems to work okay. Then there's donating
work to Commons.


- d.