Crowd Funding Enhancements

[Monte Goulding]

Hi Folks

I haven't read this whole thread so please excuse me if I'm duplicating someone else's ideas.

My suggestion would be for RunRev or an interested third party to setup a crowd funding site that allowed people to flesh out specs for changes and then offer funding for them. So the funding would be against a specific project rather than a whole mess of stuff. Now RunRev might not have the resources to do it all or might feel it's short sighted to expand their team unless it's a huge project. So some community contributor or even a consultant could put their hand up to do something once they felt the funding was right (which could be $0 for lots of things). The process would be multi-step:
- requirements analysis and spec
- RunRev endorsement or back to step 1 based on comments
- funding
- someone agrees to implement it with a time frame (perhaps another endorsement by RunRev here???)
- integration
- payment

Some way to re-allocate the funding if things don't work out would be nice. The site could also be used to help people wanting to do volunteer contributions to spec it out on a wiki page.

It occurs to me that a generic site that offered these features might be welcome in the FOSS world???

Plan B: There's nothing stopping someone or a group of someones from engaging a third party to implement and contribute something. It's been done already and I suspect it's the simplest and fastest way to get what you need.

Cheers

Monte

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