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OSS Projects Offer Bounties For Features

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the headhunting-with-a-keyboard dept.

jtowndot writes "The market for open source developers seems to be heating up. Asterisk, Gnome, Horde, and Mozilla all have bounties for desired features. Recently, Lime Wire updated its wish list to include bounties on open source development work! Similarly, i2p also released a bounty list. Is it time to consider quitting my day job to do open source development full time?"

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  1. you forgot mark shuttleworths... by Simarilius · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.markshuttleworth.com/bounty.html

  2. Agreed by mfh · · Score: 2, Informative

    I did some work on Rent-A-Coder, and the pittance you can get paid doing OSS projects makes it more worthwhile to simply get a job like everyone else.

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  3. Re:A Few Questions About This by hsmith · · Score: 2, Informative

    IMO, Your best bet would be to incorporate (also serves to protect you in contractual agreement) and file your taxes for your income through that. LLC would allow you to limit your tax liability.

  4. Along the same lines with MythTv by Frying+Ferret · · Score: 4, Informative

    Along the same lines, a new company LxM Media http://lxmsuite.com/ has started up. They will be offering data services for MythTv http://mythtv.org/ as well as paying the Myth developers. From what I undstand, you pay $5/month, and you get bounty points to spend durring the month by putting them towards a specific feature or plugin. They will then pay the myth developer who implements the most popular function.

  5. Re:Not going to quit mine by joeljkp · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's a proposal about integrating this type of feature into the Bugzilla bug tracking system. The idea is that there would be an extra field on each bug page that would allow anyone to bid on that bug. One would think that the ones bidded the highest would be fixed first (after being superseded by critical bugs and the like, of course).

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  6. Re:Not going to quit mine by jalefkowit · · Score: 2, Informative
    What is needed is a bounty system that users could pay into easily so the bounty could grow over time.

    Ask and ye shall receive...

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  7. Public Software Fund? by Russ+Nelson · · Score: 2, Informative

    You mean like the Public Software Fund?
    -russ

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  8. Public Software Fund! by Russ+Nelson · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is what the Public Software Fund does. Write up a bounty and pledge some amount for it. If nobody will do it for that amount of money, talk your friends into pledging more money .... until somebody decides it's enough to write the code.
    -russ

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  9. AROS does this too by amigabill · · Score: 2, Informative

    The AROS project has been doing bounties for a while now. http://www.aros.org/

  10. Re:Not going to quit mine by czarangelus · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think what you're looking for is Kismet

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