"ask Mako": doing just that

[Michael Shigorin]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:46:44PM -0400, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
> > > Mixing  funding  with  volunteer  work raises all sorts of
> > > issues. Ask Mako to tell you about the experiment that showed
> > > that this difficulty might   be   hard-wired  into  our  genes
> > > -  there  are  deep  social difficulties  with  projects  that
> > > blend  full  time  paid  work with volunteer efforts.
> > I'd like to accept this proposal and ask Benjamin -- what it was?
> > (if the answer's better personal, so be it; although I doubt that)
> About six months ago, I wrote up a piece on funding volunteer
> free software projects that is being alluded to here:
> http://mako.cc/writing/funding_volunteers/funding_volunteers.html

Thanks, quite on par with Mark's FAQ for me (regarding the need
for analytics of this kind while carrying out some too).

"The experiment" was bounties? (or were these its consequence?)

> If you can't get access to the documents or journal articles I
> cited off list and you really want to read them, please contact
> me offlist and I can try to get you copies.

I'm afraid I can't [fast] but it doesn't really matter, having
things with abstracts often helps more than gluing them all
together by one's self.

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