Dojo funding ideas and proposals

jredding - January 4, 2008 - 01:13

Project:	Drupal Dojo 2.0
Component:	Miscellaneous
Category:	task
Priority:	normal
Assigned:	Unassigned
Status:	closed

Offer schwag (cash?) prizes to those that
(a) Participate in the Dojo by creating new videos or cleaning up the past videos
(b) Clean up the handbook pages by making them more easily accessible
(c) Take on various tasks, related to the Dojo and/or documentation, suggest by the community (hint, hint)

Originally I posted this on the a.d.o budget page and I suggested seeding this project with $5,000-$10,000 and offering $100-$300 prizes. I have no idea is that cash exists, that is for the association to decide.

Of course the administration of doling out the cash & prizes is either going to be resource heavy. Writing out a ton of checks, making a lot of paypal payments, snail mailing t-shirts, etc. all of these take a lot of time.

Maybe we can use the upcoming DrupalCon08 as a "pay date" to consolidate the reward distributions? (i.e. when the participant shows up to check-in they get their badge, their cool DrupalCon08 T-shirt and their cool "I participated in DHODP button/sticker" and? paycheck(?))

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gusaus - January 4, 2008 - 20:21

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Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP) (and Summer of Code) have proven how successful tasks and projects can be for both learning and as a way to contribute back to Drupal. We seem to be hung up on the 'if/how/who' issues when it comes to real money.

Once again, GHOP and the Drupal association could serve as a template.

Here are a few issues and/or ideas:

Could the Drupal Association act as a conduit?
is there any way to earmark funds specifically for the dojo (i.e.
if the dojo provides a means to raise funds for the association)
how would a budget be determined?

would this be on a per project basis

could each project/task be spec-ed out based on some hourly rate?

who would collect and distribute the money?

could someone volunteer on behalf of the association?
possibly this too could be a paid (commission based?) position

who receives money and how is that decided?

do people sign up for specific roles and tasks?

what about people who don't want monetary compensation? could take a swag equivalent?
what about handing out belts for various training levels and achievements (as mentioned here)

Not sure there's going to be a way to please everybody, but I think a bit of funding/incentives will go a long way to create value for Drupal.

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