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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. 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.