Thread: Bounties- based Fundraising for Devs- maybe just a delirium?
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ajalkane is offline ajalkane
2016-01-12 , 20:01
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#11
Originally Posted by marxian View Post
My personal opinion is that donations will not signficantly affect the manpower allocated to tasks. If someone were motivated by money, the donations would be unlikely to cover the opportunity cost of performing the tasks. If someone were not motivated by money, they would complete the task anyway (if it were something they were interested in).
I agree here.

Like marxian I think this kind of donation pool will not attract significantly any developer resources.

But even so, this can be a worthwhile experiment: It can raise some exposure to some projects, prompting some people to donate some money. It can raise some developers interest seeing that many people are interested in some feature and then do a contribution. And at the end of the day, it can even get some developer an extra beer or coffee :P.
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