[OpenID board] OpenID bounty awards ...

Dick Hardt dick.hardt at gmail.com
Fri Dec 12 00:09:14 UTC 2008


We can do the vote online, we just need to make sure the email motion  
has all the appropriate components.

-- Dick

On 11-Dec-08, at 11:13 AM, Scott Kveton wrote:

> Good point Dick.  I'll have to defer this to the next executive
> committee or full board call.
>
> - Scott
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Dick Hardt <dick.hardt at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> +1 (if that matters) -- we could do this as a vote online, but would
>> need to comply with the rules -- recall them from my motion about
>> bringing on more directors
>>
>> On 11-Dec-08, at 4:59 AM, David Recordon wrote:
>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> On Dec 10, 2008, at 7:42 PM, Drummond Reed wrote:
>>>
>>>> Scott,
>>>>
>>>> I second your motion to cut the three checks and then close the
>>>> program.
>>>>
>>>> =Drummond
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net]  
>>>>> On
>>>>> Behalf
>>>>> Of Scott Kveton
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:20 AM
>>>>> To: board at openid.net
>>>>> Subject: [OpenID board] OpenID bounty awards ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> We need to wrap-up the bounty program that we launched 2+ years  
>>>>> ago.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have had several on-going requests for bounty awards and I want
>>>>> to
>>>>> get an answer to the folks asking.  I'd also like to use this as a
>>>>> chance to close out the bounty program.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Dokeos and TwikiWiki projects have both been asking for the
>>>>> awards.  At first glance, they appear to qualify so we would be
>>>>> looking at a total of $10,000.  In addition over the last six  
>>>>> months
>>>>> we've also had the Joomla folks inquire about potential bounty  
>>>>> award
>>>>> (and appear to qualify as well):
>>>>>
>>>>> Dokeos: http://www.dokeos.com/
>>>>> TwikiWiki: http://twiki.org/
>>>>> Joomla: http://joomla.org
>>>>>
>>>>> Originally we were paying out the bounties on a pay-as-you-go  
>>>>> basis.
>>>>> That means each of the companies that offered up money for the
>>>>> bounty
>>>>> would do so as they were awarded.  I can invoice each of the
>>>>> companies
>>>>> again or we can just cut 3 x $5000 checks to each of the  
>>>>> qualifying
>>>>> projects and then do a blog post that would announce the awards  
>>>>> and
>>>>> then close out the bounty program (with a total of 6 winners over
>>>>> the
>>>>> life of the program).
>>>>>
>>>>> In the interest of getting a definitive answer for the projects  
>>>>> that
>>>>> are asking, I'm going to make a motion:
>>>>>
>>>>> The OIDF will pay out $5000 open source code bounties to Dokeos,
>>>>> TwikiWiki and Joomla and do the associated PR/blog post to close  
>>>>> out
>>>>> the bounty program.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> - Scott
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