<div dir="ltr">Hi Tom, <div>what in the roadmap would you consider a good candidature for this ? I'm reluctant to bring money into the game. We haven't called for help on the planet, and we don't know what the UDS will bring (we may get dev support).</div>
<div><br></div><div>sincerely,</div><div>Pierre</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Pierre Slamich<br><a href="mailto:pierre.slamich@gmail.com" target="_blank">pierre.slamich@gmail.com</a><br><br></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/5/10 Tom Davies <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><div>Hi :)</div><div>I'm not sure about this <br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://blog.freedomsponsors.org/" target="_blank">http://blog.freedomsponsors.org/</a></div>
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The idea is for individuals or organisations to pick a bug-report or requested functionality or whatever and then write a promise to pay
$£xx to whoever does the work. Then if a dev does manage to solve the problem or add the functionality or whatever then the Freedom Sponsors people collect the money from all the promises and pays the devs. <br></div>
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Where it gets a bit hazy for me is that PayPal may charge a fee on top of that and Freedom Sponsors charge 3% on top too, in order to try to cover administration costs. Both things are allowed under GPL licenses but i know some people will object to paying anything for anything mistakenly thinking that Free (as in freedom) has to be free (as in beer). A lot of people do or have done a lot for free and it
wrankles a bit to be asked to pay. On the other hand i got shed loads back just by being involved, back when i was quite into helping people on the Launchpad Answers. <br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif">
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I have just found out that GSOC closed it's doors last week but there is always next year. I think LibreOffice got couple of projects in before the doors closed so hopefully the work will be done on them over the summer. Does anyone know of other such projects? <br>
</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards from <br></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif">
Tom :) </div></font></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>