I have no idea how well it works in practice, but they seem to strike a good balance between centralized and decentralized management. Money goes towards funding development work that nobody wants to do as a volunteer, and only trusted contributors (those listed in the AUTHORS file) can apply to work on them. Kind of like bounties 2.0.
This is so that any proposed projects that are fun or easy get done by volunteers, and money can be focused on harder unsexy work
/cc @owocki @coderberry in case it's of interest, made me think of Gitcoin!
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Blog post I wrote last fall about decentralized funding programs. Always cool to see how bigger projects handle the governance aspects of funding contributors.
This is pretty interesting: https://inkscape.org/support-us/funded-development/
I have no idea how well it works in practice, but they seem to strike a good balance between centralized and decentralized management. Money goes towards funding development work that nobody wants to do as a volunteer, and only trusted contributors (those listed in the AUTHORS file) can apply to work on them. Kind of like bounties 2.0.
/cc @owocki @coderberry in case it's of interest, made me think of Gitcoin!
Related reading: