connecting*the*dots

Open source developers know all about bounty projects, but for those of you who aren’t in the know and/or are looking to start working with open source, let me get you up to speed.

Bounties are mini-open source projects that individuals or companies will sponsor to get implemented. More often than not, a bounty project consists of fixing a known bug in a platform or product for a fee ranging between $50 and $300. Depending on where you look, you might even be able to find larger, more complex projects, with bounties upwards of $4,500.

Well, starting this past Monday, you don’t have to look all over the place to find a project to work on.

The Participatory Culture Foundation’s latest project, Bounty County, is your one stop shop for open source bounty projects and I’m serving as the volunteer… blogmaster?

Nicholas Reville is the the man with the plan and Matt Brett is the in-house guru, but I’ll be responsible for culling and posting bounties, and hopefully, steering the evolution of this blog into a dynamic interface and down the road, a sustainable market for forward-thinking, open source collaboration between funded resources and roaming talent.

Welcome to the county.