Open-source bounty

An open-source bounty is a monetary reward for completing a task in an open-source software project.

Description

Bounties are usually offered as an incentive for fixing software bugs or implementing minor features. Bounty driven development is one of the Business models for open-source software. The compensation offered for an open-source bounty is usually small. BountyC (http://bountyc.com) is a service that advertises bounties from multiple projects.

Alternatives

When open-source projects require bigger funds they usually apply for grants or, most recently, launch crowdsourcing or crowdfunding campaigns, typically organized over platforms like Kickstarter[1] or BountyC (since 2004 also crowdfunding[2]).

Examples

See also

References

  1. Lunduke, Bryan (2013-08-07). "Open source gets its own crowd-funding site, with bounties included - BountyC is the crowd-funding site the open source community has been waiting for.". networkworld.com. Retrieved 2013-08-10. Many open source projects (from phones to programming tools) have taken to crowd-funding sites (such as Kickstarter and indiegogo) in order to raise the cash needed for large-scale development. And, in some cases, this has worked out quite well.
  2. "Bountysource Raises $1.1 Million for the First Crowdfunding Platform for Open-Source Software Projects". finance.yahoo.com. 2013-07-16. Retrieved 2013-08-08.
  3. Sun Sponsors Open Source Community $1M Innovation Award, Sun MicroSystems, archived from the original on 2008-12-19
  4. Leyden, John (2004-08-03), Mozilla to pay bounty on bugs, The Register
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  6. "Amiga.org - Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase II) Assigned". Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  7. "Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase II)". Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  8. "RISC OS Open: All bounties". Retrieved 14 July 2015.


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