[OSGeo-Discuss] Jobs list?

[Chris Holmes]

Jason Birch wrote:
> I like this idea as well, but in my organisation funds are only made
> available on a year-to-year basis, and they disappear if they have not
> been used by the end of the fiscal.  We would not have an ability to
> commit funds to something that does not have a completion date within
> the current fiscal year.
> 
> Possibly this could be worked around by allowing each "pledger" to
> specify expiry dates for commencement and expected completion that the
> implementer would commit to meeting if they wanted to use that
> "pledger"'s funds?
Actually I think these things work best when there _is_ a date that 
needs to be met.  With the postgresql stuff it was to get it in time for 
8.1 I think.  In other cases it could be because a big funder has a 
deadline like that.  But even in cases where there's no obvious reason, 
it could make sense to have a deadline, just so organizations know that 
now is the time to contribute, instead of waiting.  Individual expiry 
dates could also work.  I would love to see software that enables these 
kinds of workflows, almost an extension of a bug/issue tracker - a 
funding tracker of some sort.  Maybe we should start an open source 
project :)

Chris

> 
> Jason
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Holmes [mailto:cholmes at openplans.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 09:07
> To: discuss at mail.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Jobs list?
> 
> Yeah, I'd really like to see something like this, have been thinking
> about it in the context of GeoServer.  I've thought of a pledgebank type
> mechanism (http://www.pledgebank.com) that allows people and
> organizations to put in money towards a goal, but it only gets released
> once the goal has been reached.  I think we should probably hold off on
> it for a bit in the context of this foundation though, until we get
> things up and running.  It would be great if we could have software to
> support it, maybe we can even try to nudge collabnet to implement
> something along those lines, as I think it's something a lot of projects
> could really use...
> 
> Chris
> 
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