Quote from: novacadian on January 26, 2014, 09:05:46 PM

Quote from: sidhujag on January 26, 2014, 08:52:56 PM

I think the advantage would be that if your a developer there will be a portal for them to
go to do work and get paid. But yea kinda like freelancing.. So I think it will be a continual work in progress while we are smalltime.

There are oodles of such sites out there already. To most people it would just seem a bother and risk to be paid in DVC if they are not into it already. We should really try to think outside the box in how we treat software developers, as that is the general intent of this project to my understanding.

Just an idea of thinking outside the box and not meant as something that need be actually used. Bounties are placed for all kinds of projects for fair and equatable bounties. Those projects are then bundled on DVDs that can be purchased from this project, much like Red Hat charges for Open Source.

The developers receive a fair and equatable wage and the project receives a product to sell for profit.

Let's not just go down the same road where the developer is there to be the pet monkey for the front office suits.

- Nova

Id like to better understand what youre saying. My main driver on Devcoin is basically the philosophy and actually trying to build something that can improve upon today. Not dreamy but pragmatic improvement.

My thoughts have been (1) on having somewhere visible to list and monitor official bounties, making them easier to maintain and find; (2) a separate general exchange in devcoins longer-term. The former wouldn't be 3rd party and the latter wouldn't involve receivers or necessarily be open source or for 'developers' only - it could be for any work (goods or services) in devcoins that supply/demand dictates.

You make some points I at least hadn't considered in terms of basic incentive and ethos that may mean the two still overlap, and/or perhaps gets too complicated and counter-productive? What do you think on the aspects of the concept that could be grown to maintain interest by all parties, without undermining that ethos? Or are you differentiating between the core remit of supporting work and open source development, and anything else that people might put together to maintain that 'economy' and wants or needs of those in it?