[IAEP] Sugar Labs Budget.

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Luke Faraone schrieb:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Christoph Derndorfer 
> <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at <mailto:e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Mmm, personally I'd say that at least a third of Sugar Labs' budget
>     should go towards actual development.
> 
>     All of that traveling and outreach becomes somewhat of a moot point
>     when the actual platform we're building a community around and
>     marketing doesn't work as advertised/expected.
> 
> 
> Paying developers who used to work pro bono can reduce total output, 
> counterintuitively. 
> See http://mako.cc/writing/funding_volunteers/funding_volunteers.html  
> <http://mako.cc/writing/funding_volunteers/funding_volunteers.html>and http://wiki.mako.cc/Crowding_out. 
> <http://wiki.mako.cc/Crowding_out>

Quote from 
http://mako.cc/writing/funding_volunteers/funding_volunteers.html:

"Done critically, creatively, and transparently, voluntary free software 
projects can use money and paid labor to a tremendous benefit that only 
magnifies their accomplishments."

I personally think this is something that Sugar Labs should be aiming for.

Also I think it's important to realize there's a difference between 
paying development and paying developers. As a Sugar user I don't 
particularly care about who commits the code or writes the documentation 
as long as the job of fixing bugs and improving and advancing the 
platform gets done.

Christoph

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Christoph Derndorfer
co-editor, olpcnews
url: www.olpcnews.com
e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com