Re: [AD] Money

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On Saturday 02 December 2006 5:44 pm, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2006-12-02, Ryan Patterson <cgamesplay@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 11/29/06, Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > This means, donations should work from this moment on, and flow to
> > > Ryan's paypal account - in case we will get any, that is :)
> >
> > The next thing to discuss is what to do with donations. Some
> > discussion has already taken place at Allegro.cc
> > <http://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/588807>.
> >
> > Ideally, anybody can bring forward ideas of what to do with available
> > funding and it will be discussed here. However, I want to make it
> > clear that while I am in control of the funding, I will do only what
> > the majority of the Allegro project administrators as listed on
> > SourceForge vote to do.
> >
> > So. Ideas?
> >
> > Presently expressed ideas are:
> > - putting up a list of bounties/payment for coding tasks
>
> This is the only option I am interested in.  The rest are either too
> expensive, or of dubious benefit to the *development* of Allegro.
>
> Apart from work on 4.3, I would like to see a good, automated test
> suite.  The money would not be for building the testing framework, but
> the initial set of (non-trivial) tests themselves.
>
> > Although the real-life meeting sounds
> > very useful, I think it's too expensive for this organization to
> > attempt.
>
> Definitely.  However, we could try coordinating some sort of voice
> meeting online (say, with Skype) if people are interested.

How would arguing on the phone be any better than on some real time chat 
medium?

> Peter
>
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