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That ticket is a really deep rabbit hole. :) The tl;dr is that we're adding a level of indirection: 1. There will be URLs like https://www.gittip.com/for/rail
by whit537 14y ago
That ticket is a really deep rabbit hole. :)
The tl;dr is that we're adding a level of indirection:
1. There will be URLs like https://www.gittip.com/for/rails/ https://www.gittip.com/for/rails/
2. The Internet will decide how gifts to "rails" should be allocated.
3. Companies like Heroku can pour money in the top and it will pachinko out per the Internet's allocation.
The goals are:
- To create a system that adds value for both companies and communities.
- To maintain Gittip's core principles of transparency, openness, and freedom ("no strings attached").
- To keep fraud, volatility, and lobbying to a minimum.
I'm excited to see whether we can pull it off. :)
- pc86 14y agoThat sounds pretty cool. I'd be worried about there getting to be a decent amount of money on the line (I could see thousands each week for something like Rails or Python long term) and people trying to game the allocation to get an extra few percentage points of the increasingly large pie.
- whit537 14y agoYup. That's going to be the biggest challenge. Wanna help solve it? :) https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/449 https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/449
- pc86 14y agoNice :) What is Gittip written in (I'm at work and can't do a ton of research into it)? I've been looking for something F/OSS I can help out with.
- whit537 14y agoPython (Aspen). See also: http://whit537.org/2013/03/why-aspen.html http://whit537.org/2013/03/why-aspen.html http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1b3t09/why_gittip_use_aspen_instead_of_djangorails/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1b3t09/why_gittip_us...