On 25 Jun at 13:32, "Steve (plusnet)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> wrote:
<snip of technical discussion>
> It is hoped that one of the later stages of "filesystem improvements"
> that we've been hosting bounties about on the ROOL site will address
> some of these issues, but at the current rate that the bounty scheme
> has been gathering donations, we'll all be dead and gone before any of
> that work happens.
I have intermittently subscribed to a bounty or two.
I wonder if the ROOL systems could improve the volume of subscriptions
received:
1. By issuing a public report occasionally (yearly? And to csaa?) on
what has been achieved and what could do with more funding.
2. When a Bounty has been fulfilled, write to the subscribers to tell
them of this good news and invite them to subscribe to other bounties
instead, even including with this a list of priorities for RISC OS.
3. Consider changing some aspects of ROOL to a charity, certainly
including the Bounty aspect. This would enable the trustees to
reclaim income tax paid by the bounty donors. Further the donors who
pay higher rate tax could deduct their subscription from the higher
rate income, thereby reducing their higher rate tax; if they felt so
minded they could then increase their donation by the amount of this
higher rate tax relief.
That said, how much do you think is needed in the relevant bounty
(which?) to encourage a developer to start work?
--
Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org
for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/
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