collaborative funding
Collective funding, design and development of Drupal projects
I would like to raise a discussion about the prospect of the Drupal community using a system that allows collective design, funding and development of any Drupal project.
Think about it this way: if the Knight Drupal Initative is the Google summer of code for Drupal, what I'm proposing is a Google year of code for Drupal, only there is no single entity such as Google or DKI funding projects, the funds come from community. My partner and I have already implemented a solution that makes that possible (www.fossfactory.org). I would like to hear from you about how suitable this model is for the Drupal community at large.
Collaborative funding for new OpenPackage Video features
OpenPackage Media has developed a new collaborative funding technique: Bounty.
Bounty works like this: Participants make a pledge to pay a certain amount of the bounty. Once the bounty has been fully pledged, they are billed for 50%. Once we have completed the bounty task, participants are billed for the balance.
Read the orientation guide for full details.
We have created two bounties for our OpenPackage Video module to start with:
If these go well, there will be many more to follow. Please consider pledging (even a small amount).
