funding - The Rational Street Performer Protocol

funding - The Rational Street Performer Protocol

[Peter Foldiak]

Hans,
Here is an interesting idea. Could it be a possible model for funding 
software development?

http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/rspp

What do you think?
  Peter

Re: funding - The Rational Street Performer Protocol

[Lex Lyamin]

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In a Soviet Russia....

On 3/26/06, Peter Foldiak <Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hans,
> Here is an interesting idea. Could it be a possible model for funding
> software development?
>
> http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/rspp
>
> What do you think?
>   Peter



idea is good, now if only we could come up with implementation, which looks
like it will only work with with some liquid nitorgen cooling, nonetheless (
impossible ).

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Re: funding - The Rational Street Performer Protocol

[Peter Foldiak]

Lex Lyamin wrote:
>
>     http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/rspp
>
>
> idea is good, now if only we could come up with implementation, which 
> looks like it will only work with with some liquid nitorgen cooling, 
> nonetheless ( impossible ).
Here is a Python implementation for a (piecewise-linear monotonic) 
pledge function
http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh-files/rspp/rspp.py
(calculation of the maximal sum).
Here is another:
http://thecircle.org.au/compute_contribution.py

But the main issue is explaining the idea, advertising and getting the 
pledges, not the calculation.
A web page would help but just putting up a web page is not enough, it 
needs a lot of work trying to convince parties who may benefit that it 
makes sense for them (e.g. Linux distributors).

(A much simpler implementation (and idea) is PledgeBank 
http://www.pledgebank.com/
with much less flexibility. The advantage is that the site already exists.)

Re: funding - The Rational Street Performer Protocol

[Hans Reiser]

Peter Foldiak wrote:

> Lex Lyamin wrote:
>
>>
>>     http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/rspp
>>
>>
>> idea is good, now if only we could come up with implementation, which
>> looks like it will only work with with some liquid nitorgen cooling,
>> nonetheless ( impossible ).
>
> Here is a Python implementation for a (piecewise-linear monotonic)
> pledge function
> http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh-files/rspp/rspp.py
> (calculation of the maximal sum).
> Here is another:
> http://thecircle.org.au/compute_contribution.py
>
> But the main issue is explaining the idea, advertising and getting the
> pledges, not the calculation.
> A web page would help but just putting up a web page is not enough, it
> needs a lot of work trying to convince parties who may benefit that it
> makes sense for them (e.g. Linux distributors).
>
> (A much simpler implementation (and idea) is PledgeBank
> http://www.pledgebank.com/
> with much less flexibility. The advantage is that the site already
> exists.)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
I would be happy to have a web page that does this.  Right now though I
personally am focusing on our consulting contract which needs me to put
in as many hours as possible so people can be paid.

A lot of people have said that if we had a page that listed who all the
donors are with the amount of the donation, it would do a lot to
increase donations.  Flx, if you could implement that it would be
great.  If it did this fancier pledge stuff as well, all the better. 
When you have the page ready, I will spend an hour putting together some
features that could exist if there was funding.

Hans

Re: funding - The Rational Street Performer Protocol

[Hans Reiser]

Peter Foldiak wrote:

> Hans,
> Here is an interesting idea. Could it be a possible model for funding
> software development?
>
> http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/rspp
>
> What do you think?
>  Peter
>
>
>
Yes, but it requires time to pursue these things, and sadly, a lot of
them don't pan out.  Probably I should try it on our donations page,
but.....

Hans