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General Discussion / Re: Improvement of the Bounty System
« on: 2008.03.27, 10:44:34 »The most important improvement to me would be to reorganize the handling of money. Basically, this needs to be more transparent and practical.
This is going to be changed and in the near future we will be able to receive money via normal bank transfers; PayPal might still be needed due to that the bank fees to transfer money from countries outside EC is way too high and here PayPal looks like an alternativ; of course there are other services such as Moneybrookers; but we need alternatives way of handling it. Via MenSys is an alternative also and they've offered them self to help as well. But, as said, everything is going to be moved over to the Foundation.
Currently, you donate the money immediately when you sponsor a bounty. This money is not available to you anymore even if nobody works on that project for a long time. The transfer from the credit card / PayPal account should take place when the task has been completed.
It might be so that it's easier to raise the bounty if people only need to say that they support a bounty; but how would we then actually guarantee the bounty money itself?
And to summarize what several has said is that we need to follow up better on when to quit and end a bounty and in that case move the money to either another open and valid bounty or re-fund of the bounty money. This are the changes that we need to do and as Warpcafe said earlier this is also what we have been talking about earlier. So what it boils down to is that we among other needs to improve and clarify the bounty rules that we current have.
And the money handling is something that we're currently working on; there are a few papers that we're still waiting for before making the proper changes of transfering the funds to OS2 WF bank accounts, etc.
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