Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Apr 2006 13:34 UTC, submitted by Karl
"This site intends to stimulate interest in coding for the Haiku OS by offering financial compensation to software developers once they have completed one of our code bounties." Donate away, boys and girls.
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This is really great work, it's wonderful when 3rd parties take the initiative.
My only suggestion would be to make the finances and accounting as visible and public as possible. A small reward to contributors may be to optionally post their personal/contact information if they desire - so they can share their 'warm and fuzzy feeling' with the rest of the community.
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2006-04-28
I developed and run Haikubounties.
Yes I am a third party, although I am not unknown to M. Phipps, Axel, or many in the community.
I contacted Haiku over 6 weeks ago about the idea, and had the website all ready to go but wanted the opinion and direction of Haiku itself for the site.
I was speaking with Axel in particular, and he present the idea to M. Phipps. I got an email today from Axel saying that he never did hear back from M. Phipps about it, and said he could understand why 6 weeks later I went ahead with promoting the site.
So oficially it's not endorsed, but that is something I will try to get Haiku to say/approve.
So far, it's received many positive comments (and some donations), and said by many it's something Haiku needs.
I'm not here to steal people's money, as with my two contributions to the two bounties and a private doonation I made last year, this will bring my contributions to Haiku to $1200.
This is something Haiku needs, and needs now. We don't want to keep waiting!
This model works in many cases. Look at onmac.net... I didn't really know whom I was sending my money to, but I had to trust. In some cases that's all you can do.
Oh, about the url staying haikubounties.org when you click the haiku-os.org link...I'm using frame forwarding, as I have the domain forwarded to space on my server. Sometimes the frames stick when you click on external links. Sorry for the confusion.
Edited 2006-04-28 17:04