[OS:N:] Open source development bounties

[Graham Freeman <graham freeman cernio com>]

> Can you explain the process a bit more?  How does one get involved in 
> these bounty projects?  I'm trying to help out others get more involved 
> in the OpenSource movement and this may be just the ticket.

Take a look at this for another example:

http://www.horde.org/bounties/


Somebody needs to run a respectable, accountable, sustainable, 
transparent organization that coordinates and administers open source 
development bounties.  There've been a couple of dozen times when I 
and/or a client of mine would've been happy to contribute $20-$40 toward 
the addition or refinement of a particular feature in an OS package, but 
development bounty systems like those at Horde.org and ubuntulinux.org 
aren't sufficiently common in occurrence, broad in scope, nor capable in 
practice.

If hobbyist developers were able to visit a single web site, or small 
selection of web sites, representing a broad swath of open-source 
development projects and associated bounties, I think bounty fulfillment 
would pick up considerably.

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