Dear Community Members.
Last year I started to clean up the OS2World Bounty System and created a Single Common Fund.
The basic rules of the
Common Fund are listed on its page. This year I will really like to make that money productive in something that will benefit the community.
Even that I can dream about all the stuff that we are missing and we want, like having more drivers, cloning WPS, etc, etc... but sadly I was not able to find the developers to do that.
For the moment I only have one real proposal:
Proposal 1: Use the common fund to kickstart SWT/Eclipse port to OS/2-eCS platform. I had a chat with Silvan (from Bitwise works GmbH - his team has ported Qt, OpenJDK and Mozilla) and told me that even that the current funds are not enough to complete the SWT/Eclipse port it will be a good kickstarter for this project.
So I have a real proposal of what can be done with the OS2World Common Fund this 2014. With this money and the donations from the community we can support this project.
Open for ProposalsI'm open for other proposals on how to use this money, but I need that the proposals are backed by the developers that can do it.
For example: If someone says, lets use this for something else, it need to know or had contact with someone that can actually code it and that agrees to the terms of the OS2World Common fund.
So:
1) Let me know if you agreed to Proposal #1
2) Let me know any other Proposal.
I hope in one month to request the OS2World Board to fund a project based on what we discuss here.
Regards