On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 03:41:35PM +0000, Nathan Hurst wrote:
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:19:39AM -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
I'm still against doing paid projects with the foundation's money. I think that introducing having some paid developers and others not is difficult. GSoC is different in that it's Google handling the money and it's also limited to a relatively restricted group of developers (students). I think that the amount of animosity caused by the money is not offset by the amount of work completed.
That being said, yes, we should spend the money. I'd rather spend it on hackfests where the foundation would cover travel and expenses for developers to work on specific projects. So, for instance, do a color separation sprint the week before LGM. Or, perhaps a webpage boot strapping hackfest the few days before SCALE in LA.
I'm with Ted, $13k doesn't go very far, even for student projects (equivalent to perhaps two SoC students). Unless there was a very unsexy project and the right person we would be better off using the money for tee shirts and travel.
My vote's with Ted and Nathan. I think Ted's idea of a hackfest or development sprint is brilliant. Or even just offsetting LGM travel costs (like, up to $500) for as many Inkscape contributors as possible.
Bryce