Submissions:2018/Pay bounties to developers at-large

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Title
Pay bounties to developers at-large
Theme (optional)
Relationship Building & Technical
Academic Peer Review option
No
Type of submission
Unconference
Author
Inowen
E-mail address
inowence@gmail.com
Wikimedia username
Affiliation(s) (optional)
Abstract

The Wikimedia Foundation collects donation monies which should be used for technical workers from the large body of developers world-wide, who are not on staff, but would be receptive to payment in the form of offered bounties. The technical staff on salary should be regarded as a part of overall development. Developers at large require bounties, just as developers on staff require salaries. Volunteers form a third category, and though volunteers would still be vital to the community, offering bounties provides incentive for delivering high-skilled work.

Before the Wikimedia Foundation, most development was done on a volunteer basis. With the collection of monies, the idea of exclusively volunteer type developers should be regarded as passe. Allocation of Wikimedia Foundation monies should include:

  • solicitations and even bounties for imagining and planning new technical capabilities
  • bounties for individuated tasks working toward creating new technical capabilities

Suf.

Length of presentation
Special requests
Preferred room size
100
Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?

No.

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Yes.

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  3. Bawolff (talk) 16:59, 1 September 2018 (UTC)