[OpenID board] OpenID bounty awards ...

[Scott Kveton]

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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