Find another paid contributor

[casey]

There are tons of improvements that could be made to ord, and having another paid contributor would allow these things to get done a lot faster.

Some areas which could use improvement:

• Turning homepage into more of a traditional landing page that a visitor who knows nothing about bitcoin or ordinals can learn from, particularly: what is bitcoin, what are ordinals, what are inscriptions, what are runes, how to run a bitcoin full node, how to use ord, how to make inscriptions, etc.
• Mempool support for the homepage, so users can see pending blocks, inscriptions, and runes.
• Mempool support for the wallet, e.g., fee bumping, etc.
• General performance improvements.
• An index of inscriptions and runes by address.

Currently, I work on ord on an unpaid basis, and my time is limited by other commitments. Raph works as a paid contributor, but also has other commitments.

A new paid contributor would have to be someone who could hit the ground running, and already have a strong grasp of bitcoin, ordinals, rust, and the ord codebase.

The path to becoming a paid contributor probably looks something like this:

1. Open substantial, high-quality PRs, which can be merged without a lot of review. PRs should have tests, implement substantial new features or fix difficult bugs, and fit with the existing coding style.
2. After a few good PRs, have some kind of conversation with the Open Ordinals Institute about compensation. The Open Ordinals Institute is a nonprofit which funds Raph's work, as well as the ordinals.com servers, with me, Raph, Erin, and Ordinally on the board.

Compensation would be on an hourly basis, with some number of hours per month, for some number of months guaranteed up front. I'm not sure what compensation would be, but we could probably be competitive. We don't have a large pool of funds waiting to be allocated, but if we reached an agreement with a new contributor, we could reach out to the community for donations.

[raphjaph]

New apprentice ;)

[cryptoni9n]

I'd bet there would be a few candidates in the audience of tomorrow's coding club.

[bingryan]

I can participate in some PR (fix error / new feat/ etc), If need me to solve it, you can @ me.

[lugondev]

I'm here :D