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Site tracks F/OSS coding bounties

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-some-money dept.

chatooya writes "Bounty County is a new website that lists programming bounties for free and open source software projects. It was launched this week by the Participatory Culture Foundation, which has some bounties of their own. You can search, browse, or get feeds of new bounties and if your project is offering a bounty, you can list it here." This is, IIRC, the fourth incaranation of a site like this that I've seen. Maybe this one will work.

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  1. I wonder if... by bgibby9 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    there will ever be a single "decent" repository of any programming job available that enables anyone to take advantage of it!

    I know (myself included) that I could almost leave my full-time role and focus on this type of development for a while to come!

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    http://www.gibby.net.au
  2. This is still charity by castoridae · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nobody should think they'll actually make money at this. The # of hours required for the $ earned is going to far exceed what a competent programmer could earn doing standard contracting work. And that's not to mention that there may be multiple people working towards one "bounty" at the same time, winner-take-all. And don't forget about scope creep - from one of the limewire projects... "The code is done when we say it's done".

    That said, I don't disapprove of this - just want to clarify that open source is still basically a volunteer effort, and while this is a nice token and perhaps a nice incentive, it shouldn't be confused with actual contract work or a means of livelihood.