"ask Mako": doing just that

[Benj. Mako Hill]

<quote who="Michael Shigorin" date="Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:48:26PM +0300">
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 04:33:24PM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth 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

In particular, there was some academic work on mixing volunteerism and
commercial work that I cited in that paper. 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.

Regards,
Mako

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Benjamin Mako Hill
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