but the presenter (who tries to be a comedian) Actually the presenter *is* a comedian - he's fairly well known in South Africa and had a great response from test audiences. Believe it or not, most people get the jokes;)
As for the developer - the purpose wasn't to show-off one of the "great" open source developers, but rather to show how regualar, everyday people are using open source to achieve good things. This guy was clearly very young and had used gimp and the nokia SDK to develop a game that is being sold internationally, not bad going. Believe or not, hardcore geeks are also really difficult to get in front of a camera, and when they do they're often less than entertaining.
We never expected the show to appeal to harcore geeks, they now everything we're going to show, but we did expect it to appeal to people that have never heard of open source before, and it does.
A few in this thread have mentioned a few times that the total amount offered for bounties is barely a salary for a good developer.
Two points to remember - chasing bounties isn't necessarily to be a lucrative bounty, it's more about providing some motivation to the guys who were going to do this anyway; secondly, don't assume that the best developers for the job are American - Mark comes from South Africa where US$100k would hire quite a few world-class developers (not that he is hiring teams).
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but the presenter (who tries to be a comedian) ;)
Actually the presenter *is* a comedian - he's fairly well known in South Africa and had a great response from test audiences. Believe it or not, most people get the jokes
As for the developer - the purpose wasn't to show-off one of the "great" open source developers, but rather to show how regualar, everyday people are using open source to achieve good things. This guy was clearly very young and had used gimp and the nokia SDK to develop a game that is being sold internationally, not bad going. Believe or not, hardcore geeks are also really difficult to get in front of a camera, and when they do they're often less than entertaining.
We never expected the show to appeal to harcore geeks, they now everything we're going to show, but we did expect it to appeal to people that have never heard of open source before, and it does.
A few in this thread have mentioned a few times that the total amount offered for bounties is barely a salary for a good developer. Two points to remember - chasing bounties isn't necessarily to be a lucrative bounty, it's more about providing some motivation to the guys who were going to do this anyway; secondly, don't assume that the best developers for the job are American - Mark comes from South Africa where US$100k would hire quite a few world-class developers (not that he is hiring teams).