[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] bounty program?

[From: Quim Gil]

Not that I'm against or in favour of bounties (depends on the context
and particular circumstances, I guess) but...

On 1/11/07, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:

> Looking around for off-the-shelf software we could customise shows up
> GNOME's Bounties programme (the bounties are vetted by committee):
>
>     http://www.gnome.org/bounties/

This programme was discontinued, it's worth knowing why.
>
> ... and Nat Friedman's thoughts on what I've just described above:
>
>     http://nat.org/2005/january/#bountysystem

Let's not forrget Luis Villa's research on the same topic, far less optimistic:

http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/06/18/crowding-out-of-intrinsic-motivations-aka-the-bounty-problem/

Quim