[IAEP] Working with a commercial entity.

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 00:04, Christoph Derndorfer
<e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Am 17.05.2010 23:50, schrieb 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.
>
> Luke raised similar concerns during the "Sugar Labs Budget" discussion
> last April and I still stick to my reply from back then
> (http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-April/005028.html):
>
> 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.

We certainly have lots of projects on which to look for inspiration in
this aspect, look forward to discuss this in the community team
meetings.

Regards,

Tomeu

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