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Bountysource is the funding platform for open-source software.
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Unpaid bounties #1595

Open quickwritereader opened 9 months ago

quickwritereader commented 9 months ago

Unpaid Here is the list of unpaid bounties that were reported ($ is US dollar):

Individuals and companies who violated the requirements to care for escrowed funds:

Related individuals and companies pascal Chevalier https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascalchevalier/

Mr.Chevalier informed me that he has no relationship with the company other than having some shares.
and he can pass our complaints only on to the previous managers because the management has changed.

What we can do at least

text related individuals and call them to send money that we all worked hard for. inform bounty backers about the problem

What else could be done

sue them (for victims who are living in Europe ( it has a court fee)) https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers/solving-disputes/european-small-claims-procedure/index_en.htm

report to AMF that Bountysource and The Blockchain Group have violated the requirements to care for escrowed funds and may have submitted fraudulent information about the company by reporting the assets of Bountysource but not the liabilities (the funds owed to bounty hunters). https://www.amf-france.org/en/forms-and-declarations/whistleblowing https://www.amf-france.org/fr/formulaires-et-declarations/lanceur-dalerte-0

quickwritereader commented 9 months ago
ghost commented 9 months ago

@quickwritereader , you really need stop pinging me.

thesquash commented 9 months ago

Unfortunately, much as I'd like to do something about this, I'm not European; I'm American. It says so on my GitHub profile page. ------- Original Message ------- On Sunday, September 24th, 2023 at 1:01 PM, Abdelrauf @.***> wrote:

if there is someone based in Europe, he will do great justice work if he sues that shameless company @.(https://github.com/parvit) @.(https://github.com/abebeos) @.(https://github.com/jaapmarcus) @.(https://github.com/PythonSwiftLink) @.***(https://github.com/thesquash)

— Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: @.***>

jaapmarcus commented 9 months ago

I live in the EU but taking a 81 euro bet to win 190 euro (+ 81 euro) back. Is a high risk for a relative low reward...

Moult commented 3 months ago

Perhaps add FreeCAD? https://fpa.freecad.org/annualreports/2024.html for 4,000USD Ping @yorikvanhavre

yorikvanhavre commented 3 months ago

At @FreeCAD we had in september 2023 a USD 4279.10 balance on Bountysource, not attributed to any issue.

In January 2024, we had a lawyer write a letter to the blockchain group (new owner of bountysource), stating that bountysource acts as a fiduciary (it only holds the money on behalf of someone else, it is not the legitimate owner of that money), and we as the FreeCAD project are the legitimate owner of that money, as it was given to us, not to bountysource, in the mind of the donators. And we ask that money to be given to us (less the bountysource fee). We didn't get any reply.

At this point, we don't plan to do anything further as it would likely cost more than what we would get and take a lot of time and effort...

quickwritereader commented 3 months ago

I added Freecad's case as well. it seems noone can get their money back.

quickwritereader commented 3 months ago

@yorikvanhavre, do you have any alternative ways to support your project? I would like to work on some issues for money. (although I have no experience in CAD )

yorikvanhavre commented 3 months ago

@yorikvanhavre, do you have any alternative ways to support your project? I would like to work on some issues for money. (although I have no experience in CAD )

We do! https://fpa.freecad.org/programs.html

quickwritereader commented 3 months ago

@yorikvanhavre thx a lot. I am willing to invest my time learning freecad source code if there will be several paid issues to be solved.

yorikvanhavre commented 3 months ago

We don't exactly have a bounty / paid issue program, but you could totally pick existing issues to work on and ask for a dev grant