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Bribe Devs To Improve Open Source Software
mikejuk writes "Bribe.io announces itself as: 'A super easy way to bribe developers to fix bugs and add features in the software you're using.' Recognizing the fact that a lot of open source projects are maintained by developers working alone and in their spare time, the idea is to encourage other developers to by specifying a monetary value to a bug report or feature enhancement. Once an initial 'Bribe' has been posted others can 'chip in' and add to the financial incentive."
Obviously, many services already exists which provide bounties for open source development:
https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+bounty
So really, from first glance this doesn't sound new in any way.
The writer of the article thinks the 'voting system' (multiple people pledge to pay for a feature/bugfix) is a novel idea though. I've not looked at the others, it might be.
Sounds a bit like kickstarter as well.
New things are always on the horizon
Batch conversion with no screen output is not supported, which many people want so that they can provide screen readers for things like forms documents that are required on state and federal forms documents which are flagged as "no edit", which makes them non-compliant with the Americans with Disability Act (ADA).
How does this differ from Bounty Source? Bounty Source has been around for awhile now, is well maintained and already offers everything here. In some things, to much diversity is a bad thing and I see that here. You need to be able to meet up as many users with developers as possible for a system like this to work well.