If you had money to place for a bounty, what would you choose?

Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Sat Nov 30 17:27:47 PST 2013


On 1 December 2013 10:54, Jason den Dulk <public2 at jasondendulk.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, 30 November 2013 at 23:13:05 UTC, Nick wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, 30 November 2013 at 15:22:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>
>>> Seeing how much we raised for DConf last year through kickstarter, I
>>> wonder if it might be possible to use kickstarter to raise funds for
>>> hiring a team of developers to work full-time on D?
>>>
>>
>> Even as a student, I'd be happy to throw money at D, if someone could
>> give me a good reason to. I really want to see D succeed. I'm just not rich
>> enough to be putting $20 bounties up on (multiple) individual bugs.
>>
>> I like the idea of a Kickstarter, if it could be done effectively. It
>> would need some planning out.
>>
>
> The D decision makers would have to decide what would work best, but
> setting up a non-profit organisation, and using that to raise funds is the
> standard model, and is known to work. I can contribute a small amount each
> month, and I'm sure other D enthusiasts could do the same. 170 sponsors
> contributing an average of $50 a month would pay for 1 full time developer
> and $50/hr at 38 hrs/wk.
>

I wonder what that would do to the existing contributors though?
I have a suspicion that guys like Kenji and Daniel Murphy already spend
something close to 'full time' hours on D voluntarily.
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