[OpenID board] OpenID bounty awards ...

Dick Hardt dick.hardt at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 14:15:50 UTC 2008


+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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