Re: Contribution to Octave as a PM

[fgnievinski]

Juan Pablo Carbajal-2 wrote
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:12 PM, fgnievinski <

> fgnievinski@

> > wrote:
>> Another contribution related to your project management skills could be
>> finding ways of facilitating the delegation of tasks.  The current
>> situation
>> is such that existing developers are super busy, while aspirant
>> contributors
>> soon give up if the open projects look daunting or unclear.  Here's a
>> practical remedy idea: take some of the donated money and offer symbolic
>> direct bounties (e.g., 2 cents) for tasks that would be considered
>> trivial
>> for experienced developers, such as bug triage, easy fixes, etc.  I know,
>> the idea might be bad -- I'm just brainstorming here.
>> -F.
>>
>>
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> 
> Ok, sounds liek a thing to try. Now how would you implement any idea
> that requieres Octave transferring money to developers? I am not sure
> that is possible. for sure one could do it on a personal basis,
> somebody send money to somebody else.
> - What would be the initial money needed to test one of these ideas?
> (we can collect this form the current user pool) and How do calculate
> such things?
> - What platform one could use to provide this? Does FSF has anythgin
> we can use or we would have to set up a website (more dev time!)?
> - Can we use Agora for this? (this would be awesome) How, who can
> provide the dev time?

There are the likes of <bugcrowd.com> and <bountysource.com>.
Sure, they don't provide their portal's source code, and they 
might call your libre software, open source.  But hey, that's 
exactly the case with GSoC...
-F.



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