[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: Incentivizing open source, possible bounty program?

["Eric G. Wolfe" < >]

It has been my experience that people already do this when they see the Opscode shirts.  If I happen to be wearing an Opscode T-Shirt at a conference, then it ultimately leads to a conversation about Chef.

I like Ann's idea of an incentive to have conference admission compensated for key community contributors.

I also like James' idea of putting a monetary bounty on high priority bugs/issues.  That would probably work well for many independent consultants, looking for work when business is slow.  Monetary bounties may not fly for certain community developers, if there happens to be any ethical non-compete issue with their employment contract, however.

I wasn't fully aware there was a list of high priority bugs.  Is there a better way to highlight which outstanding issues are a top priority, and bounty worthy, maybe within JIRA?

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On 02/07/2012 06:20 PM, James wrote:

" type="cite"> I'd like to give a +1 to this. Wesley does a great job also in making it clear what is considered a priority and the relative difficulty level of each project. 

James

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Bryan McLellan < "> > wrote:

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:53 PM, John Vincent < "> > wrote:
> One thing that Wesley did really well with fog is a really visible way
> for folks to say "Yeah I'm a contributor" - special t-shirts. I think
> that would be awesome.

Yeah, we've talked about these before and I'd love to see it happen.
I'd like an "Ask me about Chef" or "Ask me about my contribution to
Chef" t-shirt, that we could give to people who have committed code.
I'm not sure how to fit that on the back of a t-shirt and not look
like a book. It would probably be by request, as the addresses from
people with the CLAs that we send schwag to get crufty and people are
sometimes unhappy about providing that information with the CLA. I
could use a graphical someone who'd be willing to assign copyright to
Opscode (for simplicity) who would be into working on a such a
project.

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