$1000 Bounty for Features (or put my money where my mouth is ;)

[Bob Ippolito]

There are escrow services that could be used.. there are also already
a couple services out there specifically for open source bounties. I
really don't have experience with any of them though.

-bob

On 3/2/07, Wayne E. Seguin <wayneeseguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Great idea.
>
> Could have someone (bank?) hold funds in esgro (spelling?) or some such?
>
>    ~Wayne
>
> On Mar 02, 2007, at 16:12 , Cliff Wells wrote:
>
> > This brings up an idea: maybe we should put up a page on the Wiki with
> > ideas that people are willing to fund (and Igor is willing to
> > implement)
> > so that people can pitch into a pool to fund features they'd like
> > to see
> > added.
> >
> > My thinking is that we will just ask for a "promise to pay" (along
> > with
> > the amount they are willing to commit) and if/when Igor accepts the
> > task
> > we can follow up to collect on the promise.
> >
> > Any ideas about this?  There's clearly some risks and questions to be
> > addressed (what about failures to honor promise to pay, who will
> > collect
> > the payments and forward them to Igor, etc), but I think it's worth
> > considering.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Cliff
> >
> >
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