[IAEP] Working with a commercial entity.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:43:19PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
>One consideration is that these deployment specific issues are often
>boring -- stuff like bug fixes.  As such we are paying the developers
>the going rate rate for developers in their country or region.  This
>brings three advantages:
>1. The deployment issues are fixed.
>2. These fixes are pushed upstream for inclusion into Sugar.
>3.  There is a growing pool of skilled developers, with knowledge of
>how to work with the Sugar community, co-located with deployment

Another (quite related) consideration is the risk of discouraging 
similar volunteer efforts.  This brings (at least) two disadvantages:
  1. Increasing the gap between developers and users.
  2. Encumbering the project with (more) discrete communiction.


   - Jonas

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