[OpenID board] OpenID bounty awards ...

[David Recordon]

+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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