Are there any resources on running a funded open source project?
Questions on the top of my head:
1. Is it weird to pay contributors retroactively?
2. How do you decide $ for individual issue/PR?
3. Is it weird to pay myself (author)?
@left_pad @wSokra @TheLarkInn @addyosmani
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Replying to @siddharthkp @left_pad and
Paying to contributors is common, i have seen one person get paid small amounts of bitcoin for contribution to rails docs.
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Replying to @pankajdoharey @left_pad and
1. retroactively as well? folks who were initial contributors when funding wasn't around
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Replying to @siddharthkp @left_pad and
yes it was like a gift, since that person has been active contributor for sometime.
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Replying to @pankajdoharey @left_pad and
that sounds perfect would you also give yourself (the author) a gift for your own contribution?
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Replying to @siddharthkp @left_pad and
Haha, I am not sure, but if i would have left my job and had been an active OSS contributor it feels right to do so. This is my opinion, not sure what the ethical police would say.
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Replying to @pankajdoharey @left_pad and
oh yeah, that's an interesting difference if it's big enough, I'd pay myself a salary if it's smaller, it feels weird to pay myself equally as the "admin" for some reason
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Though just to clear your conscience, Linus Torvalds takes Millions of dollars every yr as a salary from Linux Foundation. And he is at this point mostly the moderator "admin" of Linux Project.
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Replying to @pankajdoharey @left_pad and
not the ideal role model, but sure
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