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From: indieterminacy <indieterminacy@libre.brussels>
To: Steve George <steve@futurile.net>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>,
	Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech>,
	guix-devel@gnu.org, Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
	Tanguy Le Carrour <tanguy@bioneland.org>
Subject: Re: Discussion on Guix funding // future
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:51:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cf93d4af2b01d9370246b875dd82b8f6@libre.brussels> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7fleyy5mw7qfubxp6v7suulvaoc3ps3qsmm5vijrwibo7k6ldn@rzvgeyhp4utx>

On 2024-10-25 13:22, Steve George wrote:
> On 25 Oct, indieterminacy wrote:
>> On 2024-10-25 11:37, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> > Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech> writes:
>> >
>> > > Ricardo, I can agree with you but how do you reward just being there
>> > > and doing the dirty job?
>> >
>> > For reviews, for example, one could find an arbitrary set of metrics and
>> > hand out an award with a monetary component at an annual event.  I'm not
>> > speaking of sustainable funding of that work, but of a mechanism to both
>> > publicize the importance of the work and to add a social component to
>> > recognizing it.
>> 
>> I suppose one could tie the concept of volunteering activity with a 
>> voucher
>> system,
>> which could then be pooled/collected with to a Guix theme for funding.
>> 
>> For example, it could well be that patch reviewers have a desire to 
>> valorise
>> a specific activity.
>> Getting a specific volume of patches signed off could reach 70% of the
>> threshold.
>> The remaining 30% is made up from the 'circles' concerning the 
>> languages Foo
>> and Bar.
>> 
>> ... perhaps there are some anarcho-syndicalists out there who can 
>> recommend
>> something more nuanced.
> (...)
> 
> There's lots of simple and light-weight methods *IF* there's an 
> organisational structure that can do it. And really, these things don't 
> have to be complex.
> 
> FreeBSD and Clojurist Together are great examples of small teams that 
> provide small grants to support work in areas. So I think there's lots 
> of ways we could explore the territory and experiment a bit.
> 

They look like good overviews, with even Clojure being accountable 
regarding amounts.

Perhaps the Guix community is going to have to do the most complicated 
thing of all, and write about ourselves and the interesting things that 
we do.

> Steve / Futurile
> 
> [0] FreeBSD have a simple process for example - 
> https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/grants/
> [1] https://www.clojuriststogether.org/projects/


  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-25 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-24 22:08 Discussion on Guix funding // future Ekaitz Zarraga
2024-10-25  8:12 ` Steve George
2024-10-25  9:11   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-10-25  9:16     ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2024-10-25  9:37       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-10-25 11:05         ` indieterminacy
2024-10-25 11:22           ` Steve George
2024-10-25 11:51             ` indieterminacy [this message]
2024-10-25 12:05         ` Efraim Flashner
2024-10-26 17:16         ` Tomas Volf
2024-10-25 11:06     ` Steve George
2024-10-25 12:13       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-10-25 12:18     ` Efraim Flashner
2024-10-25 15:49       ` Steve George
2024-10-25 12:58 ` Thompson, David
2024-10-25 14:31   ` Christopher Howard
2024-10-26  6:57     ` Steve George
2024-10-28 16:47       ` Christopher Howard
2024-10-25 19:13   ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2024-10-25 23:25     ` Attila Lendvai
2024-10-26 12:49       ` Greg Hogan
2024-10-26 13:48   ` Guix (and Guile's) promise, and how to (hopefully) get there Christine Lemmer-Webber
2024-10-26 14:49     ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2024-10-26 20:22       ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-10-27  0:38         ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2024-10-29 23:04           ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-10-28 10:09         ` Andreas Enge
2024-10-28 10:20         ` Andreas Enge
2024-10-26 16:40     ` Suhail Singh
2024-10-26 22:07       ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-10-27  1:33         ` Suhail Singh
2024-10-26 22:28       ` indieterminacy
2024-10-26 21:12     ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-10-28  9:21   ` Discussion on Guix funding // future Andreas Enge
2024-10-26 15:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
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2024-10-25 14:21 Noé Lopez via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-10-25 21:26 ` Greg Hogan

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